godfather
Chapter 90 Scourge
Let's talk about Meng Xiaobei's story, he is a junior in college this year.
The little wolf dog regained his freedom, and the young man recovered quickly physically and mentally, and he was full of vigor and vitality quickly.After experiencing a round of hardships in life, without being overwhelmed, the whole person is more solid and durable.Now Meng Xiaobei has a stubborn, smelly and stubborn temper, he doesn't eat salt and sauce, he doesn't repent, and prepares for a new round of resistance.
The two sides of the long-term see-saw cold war are facing an embarrassing and difficult situation at the same time.For Meng Xiaobei to go to university, it is inevitable that he will not be confinement at home, and his parents can't tie him down.It is precisely because he is in college that he cannot leave Beijing for a long time, nor can he run away, and everything is still under the watchful eyes of his family. He is currently unable to elope with his lover, go to Hong Kong or go abroad.
The concentrated firepower of the Meng family came to an end temporarily, and the two sides turned to a protracted war.It was beaten like that at the beginning, the stick was touched, and blood was seen. At this time, the relatives and friends of the Meng family's elders accepted it all at once.
Auntie came to understand by chance, and once asked: "Mom, did Meng Xiaobei come to your place on weekends?"
Old lady: "Well, come on."
The aunt asked: "Did He Shaotang come here too?...You didn't tell us?"
The old lady kept silent, pretending to be stupid!
Grandma Meng's attitude has softened and changed at this time, she just loves and spoils her eldest grandson too much.With the old lady's violent temper, she may not be able to sleep a wink when Meng Xiaobei finds her a grandson-in-law.At least He Shaotang is the godson she has been used to for so many years and has always been relying on.People are old and affectionate, facing the closest and dependent people around them, those stubborn and stubborn edges and corners in dealing with others have gradually faded away.
Grandma Meng loves her grandson, but she also loves her son Jianmin. No matter what, she can't demolish Jianmin's platform face to face!She was ashamed to let others know that she had started to turn her elbows outwards, quietly calling her eldest grandson and Shaotang to come to the house.
When the two sides met again, they never said anything bad about them, and the family still got along as before, tacitly understanding each other.Shaotang came to the door with cigarettes and alcohol, and accompanied the old man to drink and play chess. After dinner, the four of them happily played mahjong at a table.Of course, Shaotang behaved prudently in front of the two elders, and he would never get bored with Meng Xiaobei at home, and he would never have physical contact, let alone sleep in the same bed, so as to avoid challenging the "bottom line" that the old couple endured.
Meng Xiaobei lives in the dormitory most of the time, and lives with Shaotang on weekends.He usually goes back to his grandparents' house for a meal at noon on Saturday.Now every time I go to his grandma's house again, I must call in advance to confirm, and I will never meet with his second aunt and uncle. He has a very stubborn temper and does not communicate with each other.Because of this, the old lady was not very willing to let her second daughter and her husband come over. She called when she had something to do, and said on the phone, "My house is chaotic and upset, you two don't come here."
The second aunt found that she was not a human being in the end. I helped you discipline your extraordinary grandson. In the end, you made up with that outsider, and blamed us instead? !
The second aunt chased after the old lady and said, "Sure enough, your eldest grandson is the most important, more important than any of us!"
The old lady said as a matter of course: "In the first place, the house of my old couple will be reserved for Dabeibei in the future."
The second aunt curled her lips and took out two pieces of melon seeds: "Forget it, you, Meng Xiaobei's family has high-ranking officials, and they only need houses and money. In the future, they will live in a big villa, and they will look up to the one you built in the 50s." A small dilapidated building?!"
The old lady was furious: "Get out, get out!!"
Shaotang installed a telephone in his new home, and later spent thousands of dollars to install a telephone in Grandma Meng's house as well, so that it would be convenient for grandma to call her eldest grandson.
Meng Xiaobei's third year of junior high school gradually became busy, especially at the end of each semester, in the week or two before handing in exam works and class design, the whole class was insanely busy, rushing to hand in homework.Every dormitory in the corridor is lit with lamps to cook oil. After the lights are turned off at night, the male students put the easels in the water room and line them up to stay up all night to draw.
Meng Xiaobei put on an apron, and his hands and apron were covered with oil paint. When he was sleepy after staying up late, he would rub his face with cold water in the bathroom and smoke a cigarette to refresh himself.
Wang Yuhui said: "Meng Xiaobei, that little red headband on your head is so funny, if I knew I wouldn't draw Lin Shuo, I would draw you!"
Meng Xiaobei shook his head and laughed, "Master is so handsome, I'm afraid you won't be able to draw my unique temperament and charm."
A group of people booed loudly.
Lin Shuo sat on a chair and read a book, motionless, shaking his eyelids, and said, "Wang Yuhui, don't you want to be cheap and act like a good boy. I've been sitting for you for two hours. Am I not handsome? When will you finish painting?"
Wang Yuhui: "Is it Lao Tzu's brother? Why are you rushing? You have already handed in your homework. If you don't become a model, who will be the model?"
Lin Shuo grumbled and said roughly, "I still want to go back to sleep!"
Meng Xiaobei smiled: "Da Shuo Shuo, let's have a few tricks with my brother. Are you sad after breaking up? Men also have sad tears, so cry and cry!"
Wang Yuhui said: "The first love in high school, after going to college, the mountains and rivers are far away, and the two places live apart. Their ideals and life pursuits gradually rise to different levels. Sooner or later they have to be separated! Look at our class, there are six pairs who had friends in high school, Lin Shuo and you are the couple who persisted the longest, and they all became old lovers in the end."
Meng Xiaobei moved his wrist, and the paintbrush rustled on the canvas to complete the last color rendering.
I am very lucky, counting, this is the No. 15 years he has known Shaotang.He and Shaotang are the couple who have persisted for the longest time. They have persisted back to back to this day, and have never thought of being separated. They are "new loves" for each other every day.
"All the six men in our dormitory are playing tricks!" Wang Yuhui suggested enthusiastically: "Let's hook up with the girls' dormitory of the Chinese Painting Department to have a friendship! The Chinese Painting Department has temperamental beauties, and the girls are very beautiful!"
Meng Xiaobei said solemnly: "You guys go, I won't go to the friendship."
Wang Yuhui: "Why don't you come together? Only when there are many people can you speak to the girls."
Meng Xiaobei said: "As soon as I show up, there are six beauties in the house, all of whom must have their eyes on me. Do the five of you still have a role? Forget it, I will let you down."
Everyone roared, "Shameless! Get out of here!!!"
Handsome Meng was brutally besieged, splashed with paint, and rolled out of the water room.
Meng Xiaobei thought to himself how loyal I am to you, Shaotang, and my young master suffered a disadvantage at school and was wronged, and he couldn't make friends with his female classmates.
Once when I went back to my grandma’s house, my little cousin was there, pestering Brother Bei and Uncle Tangtang to teach him how to play "Super Mario".
Meng Xiaobei put his feet up on the coffee table, and instructed his cousin: "Eat green mushrooms, green mushrooms, foolish boy, don't eat the purple ones, those are poisonous mushrooms!"
"Skeleton Turtle! Destroy that Skeleton Turtle and you'll be able to breathe fireballs!"
"There are piranhas in the pipeline, piranhas, jump over there!!!"
Meng Xiaobei's commanding speed couldn't keep up with the ferocious wave of piranhas attacking, and his little cousin died quickly.Meng Xiaobei asked his cousin to get out of the way, and played 2P with Shaotang. The two cooperated tacitly, and their fingers were extremely nimble. Every time Shaotang played games, he acted like a big child, serious and focused, and shouted from time to time to greet his companions for firepower.Marie and his wife are invincible in fighting monsters and breaking through levels. This is a degree of fit cultivated over the years.
The family relationship has undergone tremendous changes, and after the ups and downs, it slowly returns to calm.However, in the invisible place below the sea level, there are still dark waves.
This year's Lunar New Year, Meng Jianmin came back for the first time to spend the New Year with the old lady.
Shaotang was also at grandma's house that day.The old man was slowly peeling the cold tomatoes and picking the clam meat in the house, while Shaotang helped the old lady kill fish in the kitchen.The fish had been swimming in the cold water of the pond all morning, spitting bubbles non-stop, and the more it swam, the more alive it became. It was also a stubborn species, and would not surrender.Shaotang stretched out his hand to pinch the fish out, slapped it down with two knives, and the fish jumped up from the cutting board tenaciously!
Fish jumping all over the ground.
The family ran wild to catch fish.
"I rely on it, this must be a carp spirit!" Meng Xiaobei was gearing up excitedly.
"I'll come, I'll catch!" Shaotang rolled up his sleeves, knelt in the corridor, and touched the fish from under the cupboard on his stomach.
Shaotang actually doesn't know how to kill fish at all, how could he ever do this?Touching the sticky fish scales with one hand, he was in a hurry.This is to show off in front of the old lady, pretend to be big, and make grandparents happy.
The door opened, and Meng Jianmin came in with luggage, cigarettes and alcohol.It's uncomfortable for the whole family to meet each other.Grandma Meng said in surprise, "I thought you'd arrive tomorrow."
Shaotang called out: "Brother."
Meng Jianmin bit the bullet and nodded, turned his eyes away, and didn't speak.
Shaotang pulled on the slippers, rolled up his trousers, rolled up his cuffs, and tore the back of his shirt out of his trousers.That kind of sloppy and casual feeling is like going in and out of your own home, like a family man; it seems that in this home, he is the old lady's own son!
Shaotang fished the fish back, chopped it to death on the cutting board, cleaned up, wiped his hands, put on his overcoat and took his leave.Those who celebrate the New Year will not touch the mold.
Meng Xiaobei was unhappy, rolled his eyelids, that father came, so this father must hide?Shaotang told the brat with his eyes: talk to your dad honestly, coax your dad.
Grandma Meng was also in a dilemma, and couldn't bear to make Jianmin sad. However, in the past years, her grandson and Shaotang accompanied her on New Year's Eve, watching the party and listening to the firecrackers.Both Shaotang and Xiaobei could chat, and the two of them sang together, making the old couple very happy... The fish that Shaotang finished killing, had to leave before he ate it? !When will the family be able to truly be like a family, sit down at a table and have a happy reunion dinner.
When Shaotang left, he passed Meng Jianmin shoulder to shoulder in the corridor.
Jianmin stared at Shaotang's hand, and suddenly said, "You bought that ring from a 'market stall'?"
Shaotang didn't know what was going on with the allusion of "bought from a street stall", so he confessed: "I bought it, I bought a pair, and I gave one to Meng Xiaobei."
Jianmin: "..."
Meng Xiaobei leaned against the door frame, with his chin raised, stubbornly watched Shaotang leave.
In Meng Xiaobei's impression, and in repeated memories afterwards, this was probably the last sentence his father said to Shaotang in his life.
On New Year's Eve, Meng Jianmin sat on Meng Xiaobei's bed, reading Xiaobei's picture album.
This is a personal picture album that Qi Liang helped Meng Xiaobei to print. It selects Meng Xiaobei's sketches, pens, watercolors and comics over the years.It's not for sale, only [-] copies are printed, and given to relatives and friends to watch and play.Meng Jianmin turned it from front to back, and then turned it upside down to carefully appreciate it.Among them are a few sketches, which are obviously painted by Shaotang, both in shape and in spirit; adult men wearing military uniforms are full of aura, heroic and compelling.
Later, Meng Xiaobei's painting style became more and more abstract animation.Among the realistic character sketches, he only painted Shaotang the best.The other characters are all cartoonized by him, such as pigs, horses, cattle and sheep.
Jianmin said, "Give your father a copy?"
Xiao Bei shrugged: "If you like it, take it away."
There was a singing and dancing party on TV, and there was a lively New Year's greetings.The old lady took her son's hand, "Jianmin, have you been sick these years? I miss you so much. Don't worry too much about other things. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. You can take good care of your health and live a good life. Important! Your hair is whiter than mine."
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The next six months passed very quickly, time flew by like flying, Meng Xiaobei himself didn't know what to do, and just muddled through the days without heart or lung.
Finally, he no longer needs to study mathematics, physics, chemistry and foreign languages in university. Meng Xiaobei can cope with the examinations of various subjects such as painting and design with ease, and has never felt strenuous.He has always been the favorite student of the professors in their department.The fairy tale book of Children's Publishing House was published, and soon after it became well-known in the industry, a new publishing editor contacted him, asking him to draw an animation book.He talked with director Qu about a children's program at five o'clock. He wrote the script himself, and as soon as the funds in the station were in place, he would immediately form a team and start filming.If the program is successfully cast, he will be on CCTV. He is only 21 years old and a college student. This starting point is already very high.
Meng Xiaobei's living conditions this year, step by step towards the ideal life goal he designed for himself, is on the right track and unstoppable.
In the summer vacation, he accompanied the head of the department and his classmates to the junction of Hebei and Inner Mongolia provinces to travel and sketch.
The easel stands on the top of the mountain, facing the endless blue sky.A column of smoke rises from the vast prairie, and the red sun is so beautiful that it is unreal.Meng Xiaobei can sit patiently in the mountains for a whole day; sitting in the morning is painting the sunrise, and in the evening, he is still sitting in the same place and painting the sunset.In the evening, he made a long-distance call to Shaotang in the guest house and told Shaotang that he was walking and drawing while traveling, and he was like a savage in the mountains, how happy and happy these days are.
His own father called again and asked, Xiaobei, when can he go home, and go back to his home in Xi'an.
According to Meng Xiaobei's usually heartless character, as long as his father doesn't look for him, he will never take the initiative to go back to Xi'an, and avoids it from the heart, fearing that his father will try to stop him and Shaotang again.He has a sense of insecurity and uncertainty in his heart, and peaceful happiness is hard-won!
Shaotang said: "Go back, your father may have something to talk to you about."
Meng Xiaobei muttered: "Is there something we can't talk about in Beijing? We talked again after the Chinese New Year, is it still the same thing! Will you go back with me?"
Shaotang shook his head: "Go back by yourself, do whatever you want."
Meng Xiaobei said seriously: "Xi'an is not Beijing after all, and it's not our territory! What if my parents detain me and don't let me come back, what are you going to do? You mean to compromise?"
Shaotang said: "Your father is not a scheming person."
So during the summer vacation, Meng Xiaobei went back to Xi'an.At that time, Shaotang spoke calmly and reasonablely, but he was really mentally prepared that Meng Xiaobei might be detained by his family and not allowed to return to Beijing.In this year of Xiaobei's senior year, there may be another moth.
Meng Jianmin is extremely stubborn in his bones. In front of Shaotang, he has never softened, never opened his mouth to agree with the relationship between the two, and maintained the last bottom line dignity of a man and a father.
As long as my father doesn't nod his head and ease the relationship for a day, he and Xiaobei will have a bad name.In front of his elder brother, Shaotang always felt like he was committing a crime, and he was stealing from himself, raising his son and stealing his son, stealing it every day.
Meng Xiaojing is not at home this summer vacation.According to an acquaintance in the circle, he was asked to play the second male lead in a drama of the Republic of China, and the schedule happened to be during the summer vacation.This is a great opportunity, the department head opened the back door for him to approve him to film.Therefore, Meng Xiaojing spent the past few months in a certain film and television base in Gansu, eating the sky full of loess and wind and sand, and filming hard.
The family is deserted, there are only three members of the family, and three meals are served at the table in the morning, afternoon and evening every day. They are relatively silent, and they are afraid of talking about important topics.
Meng Jianmin still advised the boss in private: "In the past five years, think carefully about what to do in the future. After all, men live in this world for a lifetime, and what they carry on their shoulders is not only their own good, but also the responsibility to society and family. After all, life is complete only when there is a family and children.”
Meng Xiaobei's attitude is firm: "I am also responsible for my feelings, and I will live up to him. Can life be complete without love?"
Meng Jianmin said: "Don't regard your father as the opposite of your life. It's not that I object to something, but you just go against it. You must do that, and you will never look back."
Meng Xiaobei looked away and denied, "I'm not like that either."
Meng Jianmin thought back over and over again, and asked with difficulty: "...When exactly did you two start, and how much did you like your godfather?"
Meng Xiaobei didn't hesitate: "When I was young, in Xigouli, he always came to our house to eat noodles, play with me, take me to the mountains to hunt wild boars and wolves, and take me to the military camp to see western scenery, and I liked him the most at that time. "
Meng Jianmin couldn't believe it, how old were you then?
"Later, you asked me to recognize him as my father and call him godfather, did you ask for my wish?" Meng Xiaobei shouted under restraint: "I never really regarded him as my father's generation, I Liked him for many years! Why can't you see why you can't agree!!"
Jianmin was shocked and looked at his son.
Looking back at the beginning, I made a selfish plan to help my son earn a future, to win Shaotang into accepting Xiaobei as his godson, it was like a coincidence...
Meng Jianmin's eyebrows suddenly darkened, as if all his persistence and hope were gone in an instant, flowing down the river and never returning.He said with difficulty: "Don't let the teachers and classmates at school know, I'm afraid that because of this incident, your graduation assignment will be affected, and you will be treated differently in the society in the future. When you come home, what will your father say about you?" You, in fact, it doesn't matter at all, I am your own father and I will not persecute you. When you go outside, your father will always stand by your side and want to protect you. "
Meng Xiaobei turned his head and stared at the green outside the window, remained silent, the young man was rebellious.
He also knew that his father would not harm him, and felt that he had let him down, but he didn't want to let go of his mouth at this time, fearing that a year's hard work and struggle would be in vain.
The next day, Meng Xiaobei remembered that the sky was a bit overcast, and there was a layer of gray mist outside Beicheng in the distance.
Early in the morning, on the pretext of buying breakfast, he sneaked out to make a phone call, and dragged Shaotang out of bed in a daze. "My father, Shaotang, came to have a serious talk with me again. I have withstood the tremendous pressure and artillery fire. I can go back in a few days!"
Meng Jianmin suddenly suggested: "Xiaobei, let's go out as a family of three today? There are many scenic spots in the city, find a place you want to go, a restaurant you want to eat, and Dad treats you to something good."
Meng Xiaobei's heart flashed: "...I won't go, you two go, I have an appointment with my classmates."
He figured, is his father preparing to launch the next wave of tenderness?
Ma Baochun also advised the baby's father in private: "The two sons are too self-indulgent, and they can't control it at all. Forget it, the harmony of the family is the top priority. Don't talk about Meng Xiaobei. Back then you didn't approve of the second son dating Nie Hui. Second, do you listen? Then you think Meng Xiaobei can listen to you?"
Meng Jianmin was full of worries: "I'm afraid that my son will have no one to accompany him in the future when he gets old."
Ma Baochun said: "When you are old, can you be done with someone to accompany you? Anyway, you can't help your parents, those two children do what they like, and we two old couples will live a lifetime! Meng Jianmin, I finally took care of your illness, almost You're cured, don't worry about it anymore..."
The two eldest sons are both well-known and talented, and they have climbed into very unusual families.The two brothers did not give their parents any room to comment on matters of relationship, or even their future marriage.In the hearts of the couple, how could there be no melancholy and loss?
Meng Jianmin sat for a long time in the hut where his two sons used to live, looking at the bunk beds where Meng Xiaobei slept, the used desk, lamp, and the scratches left by the pen on the edge of the wooden table.Maybe I'm also recalling the cute and cute little meat dumpling I held in my arms back then...
Ma Baochun said, where should we go for a walk and relax?
Meng Jianmin said, go to Huaqing Pool.I have been there in the era when tickets were not charged, but now that it has been renovated and charged, I have not been there again.
Meng Xiaobei was holding a piece of pancake, gnawed on it and hurried out of the house.In fact, he didn't make an appointment with his classmates, he went out to make an appointment, called a few high school buddies, and went to play billiards.
The video hall I used to go to in high school has been closed since the boss Kunzi left with her boyfriend Xiaowen, and the billiard hall has a new owner.A series of strange figures swayed in the big room, surrounded by smoke, talking and laughing happily, but there was a melancholy feeling that things were different.
The sky was pattering with light rain, and the rain was circling in the gray sky, slamming on the faces of pedestrians in disorder.
Meng Xiaobei was wearing woolen gloves, with a chic expression, bending down again and again to get off the pole.He won several rounds in the game, took a bottle of beer and blew it on his neck, and his hair was flamboyant...
Meng Xiaobei didn't know that it was raining lightly outside, and he didn't get a drop of rain on his hair.
In Huaqing Pool that day, the sky was overcast, tourists were sparse, and a group of hawkers selling souvenirs and tourist photos dangled at the gate.Cars came and went, the road surface was wet and slippery, and the big cars roaring from the northern suburbs made sharp tire marks on the road surface.
The ancient city of Xi'an, Meng Xiaobei's second hometown, the city's weather-beaten appearance was forever fixed in his mind that day.
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Shaotang went to see his father in the cadre ward of the hospital that day, brought nutrition and a fruit basket, and sat with him for a while in the ward.Several relatives from his stepmother's house were also there, making Shaotang uncomfortable and unwilling to greet strangers.Especially when his stepmother met, she was always very concerned about whether he had a partner and when he would get married.The stepmother is a kind and good person, and he couldn't bear to show a cold face to the old man.
Shaotang went out to talk to the attending doctor and asked about his condition. The attending doctor said, "His kidney disease is the root of the disease accumulated for many years, and his organs will definitely become more and more aging with age. In the future, it will be difficult to cure unless an organ transplant is done. Let the family prepare mentally."
Shaotang looked calm, and asked, "Is it necessary to match the transplanted organ, and need to find a direct relative?"
The doctor said: "That's for sure. Immediate family members have fewer rejection reactions and a higher success rate. Otherwise, we will look for them all over the country. There are many uremia patients in the country now, and there are many who have been waiting in line for several years."
Shaotang handed over a business card: "If you have plans and arrangements in this regard, you can contact me at any time, and I can come and do the matching."
The attending doctor was surprised, looked at the surname He on the business card, and asked, "Who are you?"
Shaotang said: "I am his son. My father has no brothers and sisters, he only has me as a direct relative."
The doctor suddenly said: "He and his wife told us that he has no blood relatives, so he didn't consider transplantation, so he chose conservative treatment, and gave up if he couldn't be cured!"
"This kind of operation is usually donated by parents to their children. We usually don't recommend children to do transplants for the elderly. Everyone knows this...and generally the donor is required to be married and have children. Have you married and had children?"
The doctor asked for records seriously and responsibly.
Shaotang said: "I don't plan to have children, and I don't want children in the future."
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He Shaotang came out of the hospital, walked along the streets in the city, circled the moat, and watched the scenery on the river.The setting sun melts gold, and the setting sun is like blood.
I miss my son.
One day in the future, when I am unable to walk in a wheelchair, will the person who will accompany me loyally for the rest of my life always be Xiaobei?
Bored by himself and not wanting to go home, Shaotang stayed up in the office that night, working overtime to read documents and write things.The whole building was dimly lit, and there was a galaxy of lights and shadows outside the window.
In the middle of the night, he was probably staring on the sofa, covered with a suit.The pager rang, and Meng Xiaobei called him frantically: [Shaotang, where are you!Call me back, call me back, call me back...]
Shaotang called that number.
He couldn't read what number it was.
That was the office phone number of the intensive care unit of the largest hospital in Xi'an.
Meng Xiaobei: "Little Daddy... Shaotang..."
Shaotang asked: "What's the matter, in the middle of the night?"
Meng Xiaobei's voice was hoarse and trembling, it was not his voice at all.Meng Xiaobei said intermittently that something happened to his parents.
Shaotang asked in surprise: "What happened, what happened? Where are you?!"
Meng Xiaobei seemed to be crying, his vocal chords were trembling, he was speechless, and there was a lot of footsteps around him: "In the hospital, rescue me, I'm in the hospital, my parents... were hit by a car..."
"I don't know, I didn't go out with them, I was hit by a car, and the car ran away..."
"Shaotang, can you come here, I don't know what to do, don't ask, can you come here first, Shaotang... woo woo woo..."
Shaotang was completely shocked, his mind went blank, and his fingers were stiff on the microphone. At this moment, he could only comfort him: "Xiao Bei, don't worry, don't worry, you stay in the hospital and don't move around, don't run around."
"I'll be there right away. I'll notify your family first and I'll go there right away."
Meng Xiaobei said: "Don't tell my grandma, I'm afraid, please don't tell my grandparents, Shaotang... woo woo woo... ah ah ah..."
It was at this time that Meng Xiaobei started to cry, and Shaotang heard Xiaobei wailing on the other end of the phone, covering his mouth, and howling made him lose his mind.He didn't have time to talk nonsense with his son, so he strongly urged, "Just don't move in the hospital. If you need to have an operation and ask you to sign, you can sign everything. If you need money, you can let them rescue it first. Don't delay. I will bring the money there now." .Your parents are sure to be fine, don't worry! Don't cry baby!"
Shaotang quickly contacted the Meng family.He thought that he couldn't call the old lady, thought it over quickly, and decided to call Meng Jianmin's eldest sister.Meng Xiaobei's aunts, as far as his eldest aunt usually speaks and handles things, is a quick and sensible person, and she also has prestige among the sisters.
The aunt was also very frightened and asked how serious the injury was in the car accident.The aunt immediately contacted several younger sisters, and held a meeting in the middle of the night to discuss going to Xi'an to deal with it.
Shaotang was anxious, and his tone was still calm: "We must hurry over to a few people. After all, there is only Meng Xiaobei in Xi'an now. My elder brother and sister-in-law are all being rescued. Xiaobei has no relatives around him. He is a child and has never experienced such a thing. , he can't handle it alone!"
Shaotang called late at night to book tickets, and then called his uncle's secretary, and asked the secretary to get him a ticket for the nearest flight to Xi'an in the early morning.
After booking the ticket, before leaving, Shaotang's fingers on the button of his coat trembled, the button fell off and fell to the ground, the shadows under the lamp were blurred, and the abyss outside the window was like black ink and the bottom could not be seen.The shadow in his heart slowly shrouded, Shaotang rushed back to the office, ran to the phone, and pressed on the phone: "Xiao Bei, tell me the truth."
"You tell me the truth, so that I can discuss with your aunts what to do next, and how to explain to your grandparents in the future."
"Your father, is this man still here?"
When Shaotang asked this sentence, it was as if he had cut his heart open with a knife, and the blood flowed profusely from the heart and liver, and the blood vessels in his whole body were about to be emptied.
Meng Xiaobei didn't answer, unable to utter a single word.
Meng Xiaobei wailed loudly on the other end of the phone, and what he cried was not a human voice, and his spirit almost collapsed.His family fell apart.
Shaotang's eyes turned black.
Shaotang choked up: "I understand."
"Baby, wait for me, the plane will arrive in the early morning, be strong, and wait for me to come and deal with it."
When he spoke, Shaotang's tears flowed down his face in an instant, he couldn't restrain the convulsions all over his body, the world had no color.
The blackness outside the window was intense, and it seemed as if a bright and sharp lightning had descended from the sky in the night sky, illuminating the entire sleeping city.He stood straight in front of the table, and the bolt of lightning struck his head, splitting him in half from the middle of the top of his head.Thunder strikes from the sky, piercing the heart.
The little wolf dog regained his freedom, and the young man recovered quickly physically and mentally, and he was full of vigor and vitality quickly.After experiencing a round of hardships in life, without being overwhelmed, the whole person is more solid and durable.Now Meng Xiaobei has a stubborn, smelly and stubborn temper, he doesn't eat salt and sauce, he doesn't repent, and prepares for a new round of resistance.
The two sides of the long-term see-saw cold war are facing an embarrassing and difficult situation at the same time.For Meng Xiaobei to go to university, it is inevitable that he will not be confinement at home, and his parents can't tie him down.It is precisely because he is in college that he cannot leave Beijing for a long time, nor can he run away, and everything is still under the watchful eyes of his family. He is currently unable to elope with his lover, go to Hong Kong or go abroad.
The concentrated firepower of the Meng family came to an end temporarily, and the two sides turned to a protracted war.It was beaten like that at the beginning, the stick was touched, and blood was seen. At this time, the relatives and friends of the Meng family's elders accepted it all at once.
Auntie came to understand by chance, and once asked: "Mom, did Meng Xiaobei come to your place on weekends?"
Old lady: "Well, come on."
The aunt asked: "Did He Shaotang come here too?...You didn't tell us?"
The old lady kept silent, pretending to be stupid!
Grandma Meng's attitude has softened and changed at this time, she just loves and spoils her eldest grandson too much.With the old lady's violent temper, she may not be able to sleep a wink when Meng Xiaobei finds her a grandson-in-law.At least He Shaotang is the godson she has been used to for so many years and has always been relying on.People are old and affectionate, facing the closest and dependent people around them, those stubborn and stubborn edges and corners in dealing with others have gradually faded away.
Grandma Meng loves her grandson, but she also loves her son Jianmin. No matter what, she can't demolish Jianmin's platform face to face!She was ashamed to let others know that she had started to turn her elbows outwards, quietly calling her eldest grandson and Shaotang to come to the house.
When the two sides met again, they never said anything bad about them, and the family still got along as before, tacitly understanding each other.Shaotang came to the door with cigarettes and alcohol, and accompanied the old man to drink and play chess. After dinner, the four of them happily played mahjong at a table.Of course, Shaotang behaved prudently in front of the two elders, and he would never get bored with Meng Xiaobei at home, and he would never have physical contact, let alone sleep in the same bed, so as to avoid challenging the "bottom line" that the old couple endured.
Meng Xiaobei lives in the dormitory most of the time, and lives with Shaotang on weekends.He usually goes back to his grandparents' house for a meal at noon on Saturday.Now every time I go to his grandma's house again, I must call in advance to confirm, and I will never meet with his second aunt and uncle. He has a very stubborn temper and does not communicate with each other.Because of this, the old lady was not very willing to let her second daughter and her husband come over. She called when she had something to do, and said on the phone, "My house is chaotic and upset, you two don't come here."
The second aunt found that she was not a human being in the end. I helped you discipline your extraordinary grandson. In the end, you made up with that outsider, and blamed us instead? !
The second aunt chased after the old lady and said, "Sure enough, your eldest grandson is the most important, more important than any of us!"
The old lady said as a matter of course: "In the first place, the house of my old couple will be reserved for Dabeibei in the future."
The second aunt curled her lips and took out two pieces of melon seeds: "Forget it, you, Meng Xiaobei's family has high-ranking officials, and they only need houses and money. In the future, they will live in a big villa, and they will look up to the one you built in the 50s." A small dilapidated building?!"
The old lady was furious: "Get out, get out!!"
Shaotang installed a telephone in his new home, and later spent thousands of dollars to install a telephone in Grandma Meng's house as well, so that it would be convenient for grandma to call her eldest grandson.
Meng Xiaobei's third year of junior high school gradually became busy, especially at the end of each semester, in the week or two before handing in exam works and class design, the whole class was insanely busy, rushing to hand in homework.Every dormitory in the corridor is lit with lamps to cook oil. After the lights are turned off at night, the male students put the easels in the water room and line them up to stay up all night to draw.
Meng Xiaobei put on an apron, and his hands and apron were covered with oil paint. When he was sleepy after staying up late, he would rub his face with cold water in the bathroom and smoke a cigarette to refresh himself.
Wang Yuhui said: "Meng Xiaobei, that little red headband on your head is so funny, if I knew I wouldn't draw Lin Shuo, I would draw you!"
Meng Xiaobei shook his head and laughed, "Master is so handsome, I'm afraid you won't be able to draw my unique temperament and charm."
A group of people booed loudly.
Lin Shuo sat on a chair and read a book, motionless, shaking his eyelids, and said, "Wang Yuhui, don't you want to be cheap and act like a good boy. I've been sitting for you for two hours. Am I not handsome? When will you finish painting?"
Wang Yuhui: "Is it Lao Tzu's brother? Why are you rushing? You have already handed in your homework. If you don't become a model, who will be the model?"
Lin Shuo grumbled and said roughly, "I still want to go back to sleep!"
Meng Xiaobei smiled: "Da Shuo Shuo, let's have a few tricks with my brother. Are you sad after breaking up? Men also have sad tears, so cry and cry!"
Wang Yuhui said: "The first love in high school, after going to college, the mountains and rivers are far away, and the two places live apart. Their ideals and life pursuits gradually rise to different levels. Sooner or later they have to be separated! Look at our class, there are six pairs who had friends in high school, Lin Shuo and you are the couple who persisted the longest, and they all became old lovers in the end."
Meng Xiaobei moved his wrist, and the paintbrush rustled on the canvas to complete the last color rendering.
I am very lucky, counting, this is the No. 15 years he has known Shaotang.He and Shaotang are the couple who have persisted for the longest time. They have persisted back to back to this day, and have never thought of being separated. They are "new loves" for each other every day.
"All the six men in our dormitory are playing tricks!" Wang Yuhui suggested enthusiastically: "Let's hook up with the girls' dormitory of the Chinese Painting Department to have a friendship! The Chinese Painting Department has temperamental beauties, and the girls are very beautiful!"
Meng Xiaobei said solemnly: "You guys go, I won't go to the friendship."
Wang Yuhui: "Why don't you come together? Only when there are many people can you speak to the girls."
Meng Xiaobei said: "As soon as I show up, there are six beauties in the house, all of whom must have their eyes on me. Do the five of you still have a role? Forget it, I will let you down."
Everyone roared, "Shameless! Get out of here!!!"
Handsome Meng was brutally besieged, splashed with paint, and rolled out of the water room.
Meng Xiaobei thought to himself how loyal I am to you, Shaotang, and my young master suffered a disadvantage at school and was wronged, and he couldn't make friends with his female classmates.
Once when I went back to my grandma’s house, my little cousin was there, pestering Brother Bei and Uncle Tangtang to teach him how to play "Super Mario".
Meng Xiaobei put his feet up on the coffee table, and instructed his cousin: "Eat green mushrooms, green mushrooms, foolish boy, don't eat the purple ones, those are poisonous mushrooms!"
"Skeleton Turtle! Destroy that Skeleton Turtle and you'll be able to breathe fireballs!"
"There are piranhas in the pipeline, piranhas, jump over there!!!"
Meng Xiaobei's commanding speed couldn't keep up with the ferocious wave of piranhas attacking, and his little cousin died quickly.Meng Xiaobei asked his cousin to get out of the way, and played 2P with Shaotang. The two cooperated tacitly, and their fingers were extremely nimble. Every time Shaotang played games, he acted like a big child, serious and focused, and shouted from time to time to greet his companions for firepower.Marie and his wife are invincible in fighting monsters and breaking through levels. This is a degree of fit cultivated over the years.
The family relationship has undergone tremendous changes, and after the ups and downs, it slowly returns to calm.However, in the invisible place below the sea level, there are still dark waves.
This year's Lunar New Year, Meng Jianmin came back for the first time to spend the New Year with the old lady.
Shaotang was also at grandma's house that day.The old man was slowly peeling the cold tomatoes and picking the clam meat in the house, while Shaotang helped the old lady kill fish in the kitchen.The fish had been swimming in the cold water of the pond all morning, spitting bubbles non-stop, and the more it swam, the more alive it became. It was also a stubborn species, and would not surrender.Shaotang stretched out his hand to pinch the fish out, slapped it down with two knives, and the fish jumped up from the cutting board tenaciously!
Fish jumping all over the ground.
The family ran wild to catch fish.
"I rely on it, this must be a carp spirit!" Meng Xiaobei was gearing up excitedly.
"I'll come, I'll catch!" Shaotang rolled up his sleeves, knelt in the corridor, and touched the fish from under the cupboard on his stomach.
Shaotang actually doesn't know how to kill fish at all, how could he ever do this?Touching the sticky fish scales with one hand, he was in a hurry.This is to show off in front of the old lady, pretend to be big, and make grandparents happy.
The door opened, and Meng Jianmin came in with luggage, cigarettes and alcohol.It's uncomfortable for the whole family to meet each other.Grandma Meng said in surprise, "I thought you'd arrive tomorrow."
Shaotang called out: "Brother."
Meng Jianmin bit the bullet and nodded, turned his eyes away, and didn't speak.
Shaotang pulled on the slippers, rolled up his trousers, rolled up his cuffs, and tore the back of his shirt out of his trousers.That kind of sloppy and casual feeling is like going in and out of your own home, like a family man; it seems that in this home, he is the old lady's own son!
Shaotang fished the fish back, chopped it to death on the cutting board, cleaned up, wiped his hands, put on his overcoat and took his leave.Those who celebrate the New Year will not touch the mold.
Meng Xiaobei was unhappy, rolled his eyelids, that father came, so this father must hide?Shaotang told the brat with his eyes: talk to your dad honestly, coax your dad.
Grandma Meng was also in a dilemma, and couldn't bear to make Jianmin sad. However, in the past years, her grandson and Shaotang accompanied her on New Year's Eve, watching the party and listening to the firecrackers.Both Shaotang and Xiaobei could chat, and the two of them sang together, making the old couple very happy... The fish that Shaotang finished killing, had to leave before he ate it? !When will the family be able to truly be like a family, sit down at a table and have a happy reunion dinner.
When Shaotang left, he passed Meng Jianmin shoulder to shoulder in the corridor.
Jianmin stared at Shaotang's hand, and suddenly said, "You bought that ring from a 'market stall'?"
Shaotang didn't know what was going on with the allusion of "bought from a street stall", so he confessed: "I bought it, I bought a pair, and I gave one to Meng Xiaobei."
Jianmin: "..."
Meng Xiaobei leaned against the door frame, with his chin raised, stubbornly watched Shaotang leave.
In Meng Xiaobei's impression, and in repeated memories afterwards, this was probably the last sentence his father said to Shaotang in his life.
On New Year's Eve, Meng Jianmin sat on Meng Xiaobei's bed, reading Xiaobei's picture album.
This is a personal picture album that Qi Liang helped Meng Xiaobei to print. It selects Meng Xiaobei's sketches, pens, watercolors and comics over the years.It's not for sale, only [-] copies are printed, and given to relatives and friends to watch and play.Meng Jianmin turned it from front to back, and then turned it upside down to carefully appreciate it.Among them are a few sketches, which are obviously painted by Shaotang, both in shape and in spirit; adult men wearing military uniforms are full of aura, heroic and compelling.
Later, Meng Xiaobei's painting style became more and more abstract animation.Among the realistic character sketches, he only painted Shaotang the best.The other characters are all cartoonized by him, such as pigs, horses, cattle and sheep.
Jianmin said, "Give your father a copy?"
Xiao Bei shrugged: "If you like it, take it away."
There was a singing and dancing party on TV, and there was a lively New Year's greetings.The old lady took her son's hand, "Jianmin, have you been sick these years? I miss you so much. Don't worry too much about other things. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. You can take good care of your health and live a good life. Important! Your hair is whiter than mine."
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The next six months passed very quickly, time flew by like flying, Meng Xiaobei himself didn't know what to do, and just muddled through the days without heart or lung.
Finally, he no longer needs to study mathematics, physics, chemistry and foreign languages in university. Meng Xiaobei can cope with the examinations of various subjects such as painting and design with ease, and has never felt strenuous.He has always been the favorite student of the professors in their department.The fairy tale book of Children's Publishing House was published, and soon after it became well-known in the industry, a new publishing editor contacted him, asking him to draw an animation book.He talked with director Qu about a children's program at five o'clock. He wrote the script himself, and as soon as the funds in the station were in place, he would immediately form a team and start filming.If the program is successfully cast, he will be on CCTV. He is only 21 years old and a college student. This starting point is already very high.
Meng Xiaobei's living conditions this year, step by step towards the ideal life goal he designed for himself, is on the right track and unstoppable.
In the summer vacation, he accompanied the head of the department and his classmates to the junction of Hebei and Inner Mongolia provinces to travel and sketch.
The easel stands on the top of the mountain, facing the endless blue sky.A column of smoke rises from the vast prairie, and the red sun is so beautiful that it is unreal.Meng Xiaobei can sit patiently in the mountains for a whole day; sitting in the morning is painting the sunrise, and in the evening, he is still sitting in the same place and painting the sunset.In the evening, he made a long-distance call to Shaotang in the guest house and told Shaotang that he was walking and drawing while traveling, and he was like a savage in the mountains, how happy and happy these days are.
His own father called again and asked, Xiaobei, when can he go home, and go back to his home in Xi'an.
According to Meng Xiaobei's usually heartless character, as long as his father doesn't look for him, he will never take the initiative to go back to Xi'an, and avoids it from the heart, fearing that his father will try to stop him and Shaotang again.He has a sense of insecurity and uncertainty in his heart, and peaceful happiness is hard-won!
Shaotang said: "Go back, your father may have something to talk to you about."
Meng Xiaobei muttered: "Is there something we can't talk about in Beijing? We talked again after the Chinese New Year, is it still the same thing! Will you go back with me?"
Shaotang shook his head: "Go back by yourself, do whatever you want."
Meng Xiaobei said seriously: "Xi'an is not Beijing after all, and it's not our territory! What if my parents detain me and don't let me come back, what are you going to do? You mean to compromise?"
Shaotang said: "Your father is not a scheming person."
So during the summer vacation, Meng Xiaobei went back to Xi'an.At that time, Shaotang spoke calmly and reasonablely, but he was really mentally prepared that Meng Xiaobei might be detained by his family and not allowed to return to Beijing.In this year of Xiaobei's senior year, there may be another moth.
Meng Jianmin is extremely stubborn in his bones. In front of Shaotang, he has never softened, never opened his mouth to agree with the relationship between the two, and maintained the last bottom line dignity of a man and a father.
As long as my father doesn't nod his head and ease the relationship for a day, he and Xiaobei will have a bad name.In front of his elder brother, Shaotang always felt like he was committing a crime, and he was stealing from himself, raising his son and stealing his son, stealing it every day.
Meng Xiaojing is not at home this summer vacation.According to an acquaintance in the circle, he was asked to play the second male lead in a drama of the Republic of China, and the schedule happened to be during the summer vacation.This is a great opportunity, the department head opened the back door for him to approve him to film.Therefore, Meng Xiaojing spent the past few months in a certain film and television base in Gansu, eating the sky full of loess and wind and sand, and filming hard.
The family is deserted, there are only three members of the family, and three meals are served at the table in the morning, afternoon and evening every day. They are relatively silent, and they are afraid of talking about important topics.
Meng Jianmin still advised the boss in private: "In the past five years, think carefully about what to do in the future. After all, men live in this world for a lifetime, and what they carry on their shoulders is not only their own good, but also the responsibility to society and family. After all, life is complete only when there is a family and children.”
Meng Xiaobei's attitude is firm: "I am also responsible for my feelings, and I will live up to him. Can life be complete without love?"
Meng Jianmin said: "Don't regard your father as the opposite of your life. It's not that I object to something, but you just go against it. You must do that, and you will never look back."
Meng Xiaobei looked away and denied, "I'm not like that either."
Meng Jianmin thought back over and over again, and asked with difficulty: "...When exactly did you two start, and how much did you like your godfather?"
Meng Xiaobei didn't hesitate: "When I was young, in Xigouli, he always came to our house to eat noodles, play with me, take me to the mountains to hunt wild boars and wolves, and take me to the military camp to see western scenery, and I liked him the most at that time. "
Meng Jianmin couldn't believe it, how old were you then?
"Later, you asked me to recognize him as my father and call him godfather, did you ask for my wish?" Meng Xiaobei shouted under restraint: "I never really regarded him as my father's generation, I Liked him for many years! Why can't you see why you can't agree!!"
Jianmin was shocked and looked at his son.
Looking back at the beginning, I made a selfish plan to help my son earn a future, to win Shaotang into accepting Xiaobei as his godson, it was like a coincidence...
Meng Jianmin's eyebrows suddenly darkened, as if all his persistence and hope were gone in an instant, flowing down the river and never returning.He said with difficulty: "Don't let the teachers and classmates at school know, I'm afraid that because of this incident, your graduation assignment will be affected, and you will be treated differently in the society in the future. When you come home, what will your father say about you?" You, in fact, it doesn't matter at all, I am your own father and I will not persecute you. When you go outside, your father will always stand by your side and want to protect you. "
Meng Xiaobei turned his head and stared at the green outside the window, remained silent, the young man was rebellious.
He also knew that his father would not harm him, and felt that he had let him down, but he didn't want to let go of his mouth at this time, fearing that a year's hard work and struggle would be in vain.
The next day, Meng Xiaobei remembered that the sky was a bit overcast, and there was a layer of gray mist outside Beicheng in the distance.
Early in the morning, on the pretext of buying breakfast, he sneaked out to make a phone call, and dragged Shaotang out of bed in a daze. "My father, Shaotang, came to have a serious talk with me again. I have withstood the tremendous pressure and artillery fire. I can go back in a few days!"
Meng Jianmin suddenly suggested: "Xiaobei, let's go out as a family of three today? There are many scenic spots in the city, find a place you want to go, a restaurant you want to eat, and Dad treats you to something good."
Meng Xiaobei's heart flashed: "...I won't go, you two go, I have an appointment with my classmates."
He figured, is his father preparing to launch the next wave of tenderness?
Ma Baochun also advised the baby's father in private: "The two sons are too self-indulgent, and they can't control it at all. Forget it, the harmony of the family is the top priority. Don't talk about Meng Xiaobei. Back then you didn't approve of the second son dating Nie Hui. Second, do you listen? Then you think Meng Xiaobei can listen to you?"
Meng Jianmin was full of worries: "I'm afraid that my son will have no one to accompany him in the future when he gets old."
Ma Baochun said: "When you are old, can you be done with someone to accompany you? Anyway, you can't help your parents, those two children do what they like, and we two old couples will live a lifetime! Meng Jianmin, I finally took care of your illness, almost You're cured, don't worry about it anymore..."
The two eldest sons are both well-known and talented, and they have climbed into very unusual families.The two brothers did not give their parents any room to comment on matters of relationship, or even their future marriage.In the hearts of the couple, how could there be no melancholy and loss?
Meng Jianmin sat for a long time in the hut where his two sons used to live, looking at the bunk beds where Meng Xiaobei slept, the used desk, lamp, and the scratches left by the pen on the edge of the wooden table.Maybe I'm also recalling the cute and cute little meat dumpling I held in my arms back then...
Ma Baochun said, where should we go for a walk and relax?
Meng Jianmin said, go to Huaqing Pool.I have been there in the era when tickets were not charged, but now that it has been renovated and charged, I have not been there again.
Meng Xiaobei was holding a piece of pancake, gnawed on it and hurried out of the house.In fact, he didn't make an appointment with his classmates, he went out to make an appointment, called a few high school buddies, and went to play billiards.
The video hall I used to go to in high school has been closed since the boss Kunzi left with her boyfriend Xiaowen, and the billiard hall has a new owner.A series of strange figures swayed in the big room, surrounded by smoke, talking and laughing happily, but there was a melancholy feeling that things were different.
The sky was pattering with light rain, and the rain was circling in the gray sky, slamming on the faces of pedestrians in disorder.
Meng Xiaobei was wearing woolen gloves, with a chic expression, bending down again and again to get off the pole.He won several rounds in the game, took a bottle of beer and blew it on his neck, and his hair was flamboyant...
Meng Xiaobei didn't know that it was raining lightly outside, and he didn't get a drop of rain on his hair.
In Huaqing Pool that day, the sky was overcast, tourists were sparse, and a group of hawkers selling souvenirs and tourist photos dangled at the gate.Cars came and went, the road surface was wet and slippery, and the big cars roaring from the northern suburbs made sharp tire marks on the road surface.
The ancient city of Xi'an, Meng Xiaobei's second hometown, the city's weather-beaten appearance was forever fixed in his mind that day.
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Shaotang went to see his father in the cadre ward of the hospital that day, brought nutrition and a fruit basket, and sat with him for a while in the ward.Several relatives from his stepmother's house were also there, making Shaotang uncomfortable and unwilling to greet strangers.Especially when his stepmother met, she was always very concerned about whether he had a partner and when he would get married.The stepmother is a kind and good person, and he couldn't bear to show a cold face to the old man.
Shaotang went out to talk to the attending doctor and asked about his condition. The attending doctor said, "His kidney disease is the root of the disease accumulated for many years, and his organs will definitely become more and more aging with age. In the future, it will be difficult to cure unless an organ transplant is done. Let the family prepare mentally."
Shaotang looked calm, and asked, "Is it necessary to match the transplanted organ, and need to find a direct relative?"
The doctor said: "That's for sure. Immediate family members have fewer rejection reactions and a higher success rate. Otherwise, we will look for them all over the country. There are many uremia patients in the country now, and there are many who have been waiting in line for several years."
Shaotang handed over a business card: "If you have plans and arrangements in this regard, you can contact me at any time, and I can come and do the matching."
The attending doctor was surprised, looked at the surname He on the business card, and asked, "Who are you?"
Shaotang said: "I am his son. My father has no brothers and sisters, he only has me as a direct relative."
The doctor suddenly said: "He and his wife told us that he has no blood relatives, so he didn't consider transplantation, so he chose conservative treatment, and gave up if he couldn't be cured!"
"This kind of operation is usually donated by parents to their children. We usually don't recommend children to do transplants for the elderly. Everyone knows this...and generally the donor is required to be married and have children. Have you married and had children?"
The doctor asked for records seriously and responsibly.
Shaotang said: "I don't plan to have children, and I don't want children in the future."
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He Shaotang came out of the hospital, walked along the streets in the city, circled the moat, and watched the scenery on the river.The setting sun melts gold, and the setting sun is like blood.
I miss my son.
One day in the future, when I am unable to walk in a wheelchair, will the person who will accompany me loyally for the rest of my life always be Xiaobei?
Bored by himself and not wanting to go home, Shaotang stayed up in the office that night, working overtime to read documents and write things.The whole building was dimly lit, and there was a galaxy of lights and shadows outside the window.
In the middle of the night, he was probably staring on the sofa, covered with a suit.The pager rang, and Meng Xiaobei called him frantically: [Shaotang, where are you!Call me back, call me back, call me back...]
Shaotang called that number.
He couldn't read what number it was.
That was the office phone number of the intensive care unit of the largest hospital in Xi'an.
Meng Xiaobei: "Little Daddy... Shaotang..."
Shaotang asked: "What's the matter, in the middle of the night?"
Meng Xiaobei's voice was hoarse and trembling, it was not his voice at all.Meng Xiaobei said intermittently that something happened to his parents.
Shaotang asked in surprise: "What happened, what happened? Where are you?!"
Meng Xiaobei seemed to be crying, his vocal chords were trembling, he was speechless, and there was a lot of footsteps around him: "In the hospital, rescue me, I'm in the hospital, my parents... were hit by a car..."
"I don't know, I didn't go out with them, I was hit by a car, and the car ran away..."
"Shaotang, can you come here, I don't know what to do, don't ask, can you come here first, Shaotang... woo woo woo..."
Shaotang was completely shocked, his mind went blank, and his fingers were stiff on the microphone. At this moment, he could only comfort him: "Xiao Bei, don't worry, don't worry, you stay in the hospital and don't move around, don't run around."
"I'll be there right away. I'll notify your family first and I'll go there right away."
Meng Xiaobei said: "Don't tell my grandma, I'm afraid, please don't tell my grandparents, Shaotang... woo woo woo... ah ah ah..."
It was at this time that Meng Xiaobei started to cry, and Shaotang heard Xiaobei wailing on the other end of the phone, covering his mouth, and howling made him lose his mind.He didn't have time to talk nonsense with his son, so he strongly urged, "Just don't move in the hospital. If you need to have an operation and ask you to sign, you can sign everything. If you need money, you can let them rescue it first. Don't delay. I will bring the money there now." .Your parents are sure to be fine, don't worry! Don't cry baby!"
Shaotang quickly contacted the Meng family.He thought that he couldn't call the old lady, thought it over quickly, and decided to call Meng Jianmin's eldest sister.Meng Xiaobei's aunts, as far as his eldest aunt usually speaks and handles things, is a quick and sensible person, and she also has prestige among the sisters.
The aunt was also very frightened and asked how serious the injury was in the car accident.The aunt immediately contacted several younger sisters, and held a meeting in the middle of the night to discuss going to Xi'an to deal with it.
Shaotang was anxious, and his tone was still calm: "We must hurry over to a few people. After all, there is only Meng Xiaobei in Xi'an now. My elder brother and sister-in-law are all being rescued. Xiaobei has no relatives around him. He is a child and has never experienced such a thing. , he can't handle it alone!"
Shaotang called late at night to book tickets, and then called his uncle's secretary, and asked the secretary to get him a ticket for the nearest flight to Xi'an in the early morning.
After booking the ticket, before leaving, Shaotang's fingers on the button of his coat trembled, the button fell off and fell to the ground, the shadows under the lamp were blurred, and the abyss outside the window was like black ink and the bottom could not be seen.The shadow in his heart slowly shrouded, Shaotang rushed back to the office, ran to the phone, and pressed on the phone: "Xiao Bei, tell me the truth."
"You tell me the truth, so that I can discuss with your aunts what to do next, and how to explain to your grandparents in the future."
"Your father, is this man still here?"
When Shaotang asked this sentence, it was as if he had cut his heart open with a knife, and the blood flowed profusely from the heart and liver, and the blood vessels in his whole body were about to be emptied.
Meng Xiaobei didn't answer, unable to utter a single word.
Meng Xiaobei wailed loudly on the other end of the phone, and what he cried was not a human voice, and his spirit almost collapsed.His family fell apart.
Shaotang's eyes turned black.
Shaotang choked up: "I understand."
"Baby, wait for me, the plane will arrive in the early morning, be strong, and wait for me to come and deal with it."
When he spoke, Shaotang's tears flowed down his face in an instant, he couldn't restrain the convulsions all over his body, the world had no color.
The blackness outside the window was intense, and it seemed as if a bright and sharp lightning had descended from the sky in the night sky, illuminating the entire sleeping city.He stood straight in front of the table, and the bolt of lightning struck his head, splitting him in half from the middle of the top of his head.Thunder strikes from the sky, piercing the heart.
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