Chapter 0284 – Heart Knot (II)

“Mom, what are you looking for me for? By the way. Let me tell you, when I went to Xinjiang this time, I encountered a death valley inside the mountain, it was called a horror ah! The valley is full of corpses and bones inside and outside, and ……”

Zhuang Rui a little confused about the mother’s mind, coupled with some of their own weakness, into the room and mom talked about the jade mining in the Kunlun Mountains, Zhuang mother just quietly listening, face from time to time to show a smile.

“Tired of talking about it! Here, have a drink of water, tell me what things are hidden from me?”

Zhuang mother poured a cup of water for her son and said with a smile, although this son doesn’t get into trouble, but from being careful, but Zhuang Rui has a problem, that is, when he does something wrong, he speaks and doesn’t dare to look straight into his own eyes, that’s why Zhuang mother asked such a question.

“Mom, what could be going on! I haven’t even been in Beijing for long.”

Zhuang Rui words exit only to feel some wrong, eyes hide not dare to look at their own mom.

“Alas, this child of yours, you can fool others, can you still fool me? Is not to see the Ouyang family?”

Zhuang mother since agreed to let Zhuang Rui go to Beijing to go to school, the heart can more or less predicted, just she did not expect, Zhuang Rui first time to go to Beijing, actually can run into their own mother’s family.

“Mom, I met …… my brother-in-law, you, you mustn’t be angry! It was them who got me there.”

Zhuang Rui summoned up the courage, after finishing his speech, he raised his head, but found that his mother had tears in her eyes, and her look was also somewhat in a trance, which scared Zhuang Rui, and he hurriedly walked over to prepare to help his old mom with Reiki to comb down.

“It’s okay, it’s okay, silly son, sit there! Mom is fine.”

Zhuang mother pushed away her son’s hand that was knocking her back, pointed to the chair in front of her, signaling Zhuang Rui to sit down and talk.

“Mom, are you really fine? Don’t scare me ah! At most, I won’t pay any more attention to them in the future.”

Zhuang Rui from a young age can’t see his mother sad, and when he was a child, he was naughty and mischievous. As long as Zhuang mother shed a tear, then Zhuang Rui guaranteed to honestly go write a check.

“Mom is really fine, little brother he …… is okay?”

Zhuang mother patted her son’s hand and said almost to herself, her eyes full of memories.

Ouyang Gang a total of children four people, the first three are sons, so after giving birth to a daughter doubly spoiled, plus there are three older brothers, life as a child is like a princess in general, was held in the hands of the fear of falling, contained in the mouth for fear of melting, childhood and teenage years, are carefree.

But when that unprecedented movement that swept the entire country began, everything changed, loving mother was emergency evacuation to Fujian, several older brothers are also scattered in various places, only the father is still around, at that time is still very naive Ouyang Wan, and did not suspect that big movement, but with a positive attitude to deal with.

At that time, Zhuang Rui’s father, Zhuang Tianyu, appeared. He was a thin and weak appearance, but inside is very strong people, that time is about the old son of a hero, the old son of a reactionary son of a bastard, as the son of the stink of the old nine Zhuang Tianyu, during the day to carry out more than ten hours of intense labor, but at night he often walk dozens of miles to visit his father, who was locked up in the cowshed.

Ouyang Wan is also at that time to recognize Zhuang Tianyu, the beginning of love, she was the man’s strength and optimism deeply attracted, and then borrowed in their old mansion, the two contact more, five or six years, enough to let the two know each other and love each other.

Ouyang Wan knew that his father gave himself a marriage, but she took that thing as a father drunk and old comrades joke, in Ouyang Wan used to live in the circle, can come into contact with a lot of at that time was known as poisonous weeds in the literature of the masterpieces, the pursuit of their own love of this belief, as a matter of course, in the girl’s heart took root.

Her father’s anger was something she did not expect, she did not understand why her father, who had always loved her so much, would become so overbearing and unreasonable, and the reason that prompted her to turn against her father was what Ouyang Gang said to Zhuang Tianyu.

After Ouyang Gang’s unsuccessful negotiation with his daughter, he found Zhuang Rui’s father and questioned him at that time: what ability do you have to support my daughter, can you bring her a good life? If you are a man, don’t stop your daughter from returning to Beijing with me.

Ouyang Gang didn’t know that his words were secretly heard by his daughter outside the door, which led to Ouyang Gang asking her to choose whether to go back to Beijing or stay in Pengcheng. Ouyang Wan directly chose the latter, and said some more desperate words, so that Ouyang Gang was furious, resulting in the conflict between father and daughter became more intense.

In fact, at that time, Ouyang Wan had some regrets in her heart for saying those heartless words to her father, when her elder brother found her for the first time, she was already thinking of finding an opportunity to admit her fault to her father, but some things happened later, but it made her hold a grudge against Ouyang Gang for decades.

Zhuang Rui’s father is a good and strong person, originally was his father’s university assistant professor, but at the end of the turmoil, a lot of people were not able to get resettled, Zhuang Tianyu because of the old man’s words, did not let Ouyang Wan suffered a little bit of aggravation, their own outside the desperate work, pulling briquettes, loading and unloading of goods do everything.

But Zhuang Tianyu’s body was already very weak, in that era of turmoil also suffered some dark injuries, this labor, on the sick, two years later in the Zhuang Rui four or five years old when he died, which makes Ouyang Wan heartbroken, along with the stimulation of the Zhuang Tianyu’s father held a grudge, which is when the big brother for the second time to find Ouyang Wan and want to help her. Ouyang Wan was flatly rejected the main reason.

In fact, in this matter, both sides have some misunderstandings, Ouyang Gang originally felt that his daughter will return to his heart, to admit a mistake to himself, he will also recognize the marriage, after all, Zhuang Tianyu’s father is also and their own with the suffering of the past.

Who knows that the person he sent did not hear Ouyang Wan apologized, but the words even more desperate, which made him furious, but also love and hate, Ouyang Gang did not think, he said some angry words back then. But it is stimulated to the son-in-law, but also let the daughter has not been able to forgive him.

Of course, this misunderstanding, the parties are no way to know, but decades down the line, Ouyang Wan’s grudge against her father, gradually turned into thoughts of her mother and brothers, they did not do anything wrong, and their own refusal of their help, in fact, is just a demonstration to the father, I don’t need anyone’s help, the same can live a good life.

But not to the New Year holidays, Ouyang Wan will still think of their loved ones, and can not confide in their children, especially in the first few years of the time, she can occasionally catch her father’s aging face on TV, her heart is also more and more homesick, that hatred, but also gradually dissipated.

“Mom, brother-in-law he’s fine, he just misses you especially, mom, are you listening to me?”

Zhuang Rui’s voice made Ouyang Wan wake up from her memories, her face was already full of tear tracks.

“I am listening, Xiao Rui, are you …… grandparents’ health okay?”

Ouyang Wan gathered enough courage before asking this sentence, she hadn’t heard any news about her parents for several years now, fearing that they were already gone, looking at Zhuang Rui with apprehension in her heart.

“Grandpa and grandma are both still alive, just not very well, this year is their ninetieth birthday, but my brother-in-law said that grandma doesn’t know if she can make it to that time.”

Zhuang Rui repeated Ouyang Zhenwu’s words, he also didn’t want his mother to have regrets, it was best to go and see her before her big birthday.

Ouyang Wan’s face became paler and paler at the words, the whole person seemed to have aged a few years, her body sitting on the chair also shook a little, which scared Zhuang Rui to hold his mother in a hurry. Said: “Mom, don’t be anxious, let’s go to the capital tomorrow, to ensure that the two old people see you, the disease will immediately get well.”

Zhuang Rui’s words made Ouyang Wan’s eyes light up, but then they dimmed and said, “Your grandpa’s man has a stubborn temper, he never says one thing, if I go, he won’t see me.”

Zhuang Rui smiled bitterly at his words, this is where it’s at, still saying these words, so he consoled, “Mom, grandpa, he regretted it, and often chanted about you, the main thing is that you refused to accept the help of your great uncle and the others, he thought that you were still angry!”

Zhuang Rui’s words were all nonsense, in order to coax his mother to Beijing first, only he didn’t realize that what he said was not much worse from Ouyang Gang’s thoughts.

“Okay, okay, let’s go to Beijing.”

Hearing the news of his parents’ poor health, the scenes of his parents loving him in his childhood crossed in front of his eyes, Ouyang Wan’s heart had long been in turmoil, and as soon as he grabbed Zhuang Rui, he couldn’t wait to stand up.

“Mom, not hurry this day or two days, wait for me to arrange a bit, we go again, otherwise grandparents fierce see you, under the mood of excitement, and then appeared a good or bad, that would not be good.”

After hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Ouyang Wan also calmed down and said, “OK, let’s go to Beijing next week, take Xiao Min and Nuan Nuan with us, and let Guodong go with us.”

“Okay, mom, don’t worry! I’ll go to Beijing first to make some arrangements, then you guys can go.”

Zhuang Rui actually wanted to meet his grandparents by himself first, and then use his aura to freshen up the two old men’s bodies, otherwise there was a real possibility that a good thing would turn into a bad thing, like he said.

“Alright, Xiao Rui, you go and rest! I’m also tired from flying today, and mom also needs some quiet time.”

Ouyang Wan recovered her previous appearance, I think the knot in her heart has been untied, this also let Zhuang Rui rest assured a lot, after sending his mother back to her room, Zhuang Rui called his old sister over again.

“What you said is true?”

Zhuang Min opened her eyes wide, a look of incredulity, she has seen a lot of soap operas, I did not expect the plot on the screen, actually in their own homes really happening.

“I lie to you why ah! Tomorrow …… no, the day after tomorrow I will go to Beijing again, and so on after the arrangement, you and mom come together.”

Zhuang Rui originally wanted to say tomorrow, but remembered that he also had to send that piece of jadeite to Master Wu, so he delayed the date by one day.