While thanking him, Mr. Huo carried his youngest son to the passenger seat.
After successfully sitting in the passenger seat, three-year-old Huo Xiangyou finally stopped crying.
The family continued on their journey happily.
In the back row, Huo Xiangbin listened to his father and the driver chatting in the front, and heard his mother's warm and caring voice in his ears. Thinking about going to school to receive praise soon, he felt that today was definitely the happiest day of his life.
But he didn't expect that when he was happily leaning on the car window to enjoy the breeze, he suddenly heard the driver's voice from the front seat, "You can't kick!"
Before Huo Xiangbin could figure out what was happening, he felt dizzy and the car suddenly flipped to the side and rolled down a cliff by the roadside.
Huo Xiangbin's last memory before he fell into a coma was the sound of the car rolling and crashing, and his mother holding him tightly and giving him instructions with her last bit of strength.
"Binbin, stay alive. Take care of your brother. You two brothers must stay alive..."
In this accident, Huo Xiangbin's mother and the driver all died, only Huo Xiangbin and his younger brother survived.
The two of them survived because one was held in his father's arms and the other was protected in his mother's arms, so they escaped death.
The Huo family was not large, and their grandparents had passed away long ago. Even if they had relatives, those relatives had their own children and did not want to take in the two of them, who were a hot potato.
After his mother passed away, Huo Xiangbin, who was only thirteen years old, had to live with his younger brother.
But misfortunes never come singly. The driver's family felt that their son's death was caused by the Huo family's incident. Originally, he had no plans to drive that day, but he sent them to town out of friendship as fellow villagers. If it weren't for this incident, he would still be at home now!
The driver's wife even pointed at Huo Xiangbin's nose and scolded him, saying that if he hadn't insisted on asking his parents to attend a parent-teacher meeting, this wouldn't have happened!
I don’t know if three-year-old Huo Xiangyou heard what he said, he also cried and shouted for his parents, asking his brother to return them to him.
Huo Xiangbin had already been devastated by the death of his mother, and he hadn't recovered from the grief. Now, hearing these words again and again, he couldn't help but start to doubt himself, wondering if he was really the one who caused this...
If he hadn't asked his parents to attend his parent-teacher conference, would this incident have avoided happening?
Mom and Dad wouldn't have died, and the driver wouldn't have lost his life...
Since then, Huo Xiangbin seemed to be trapped in endless guilt and pain, and took all the blame on himself.
He divided the remaining savings in his family into two parts, gave one part to the driver's family as compensation, and kept the other part as living expenses for himself and his younger brother in the future.
But the driver's family was not satisfied with the money. Thinking of the tragic death of the driver, they would come to the Huo family's door from time to time to curse, making life difficult for Huo Xiangbin and Huo Xiangyou in the village.
Although neighbors occasionally help to say a few words, it is always someone else's business and they can't do anything about it.
The children in the village also heard about this incident and started calling Huo Xiangbin a jinx and a troublemaker. They also started to dislike Huo Xiangyou, saying that he was a little troublemaker.
Huo Xiangyou cried and shouted that he was not one of them, but the children did not believe him at all and continued to exclude and bully him.
Huo Xiangyou could only cry and complain to his brother. When Huo Xiangbin saw his brother being bullied, his first reaction was to find those people to seek justice.
But a word from his younger brother Huo Xiang made him stop abruptly.
Because the younger brother said that everyone in the village said that his elder brother was a troublemaker and he was a little troublemaker.
No one likes them. He doesn't want to live here anymore. He wants to leave.
When he said these words, his brother's face was full of fear and terror, his trembling body and eyes full of tears, which made Huo Xiangbin feel heartbroken.
Huo Xiangbin felt sad and blamed himself because he thought that his brother was bullied by other children because of the rumors about him.
He was unable to seek justice for his brother at that time, and finally, amid his brother's pleading, he took him away from the home where he had lived for more than ten years.
I originally planned to go to another place to stay with relatives, but because of my lack of experience, the money I had with me was accidentally stolen by a thief.
They thought they would end up penniless and begging on the streets, but fortunately Huo Xiangbin met a Taoist priest who took pity on the two brothers and, since Huo Xiangbin had some talent in metaphysics, eventually brought them back to Tianyun Temple.
From that day on, Huo Xiangbin took the monk as his master and settled down in Tianyun Temple with his brother.
Although he had settled down, Huo Xiangbin felt more and more guilty every time he saw his younger brother sitting on the sidelines and unable to play freely like other children of the same age.
Therefore, he doted on his younger brother even more, trying to make up for the regret that he was unable to grow up like a normal child because of his involvement.
Later, as he grew older, Huo Xiangbin learned a lot of knowledge from his master and fellow monks in the temple. He gradually realized that his mother's death was not caused by him.
However, every time his guilt eased a little, he would be "reminded" by his younger brother not long after.
His younger brother would often tell him how much he missed his parents, or when he made a mistake and was being taught a lesson, he would say that if his parents were still alive, they would never treat him like that. He would also say that if it weren't for Huo Xiangbin, he wouldn't have been homeless since childhood and had to live in a temple like a wild child...
Under such accusations and accusations, Huo Xiangbin's originally adjusted mentality collapsed again, and he fell into endless self-blame and pain again.
Even if he could deny that he was the one who killed his mother, all the suffering his brother was experiencing now was indeed caused by him.
If it weren't for him, his younger brother wouldn't be bullied by the kids in the village, wouldn't be homeless, and wouldn't be growing up in such an environment.
Day after day, year after year, Huo Xiangbin no longer wants to recall the past. He only plans to do his best to take care of his younger brother to make up for his childhood regrets.
Even if he sometimes did something too extreme, Huo Xiangbin could only educate him and clean up for him.
Many times he wanted to harden his heart and ignore his brother, but every time this happened, his brother would bring up things from their childhood. Those words were like a curse, making it impossible for Huo Xiangbin to escape. He could only retreat and endure again.
Even Huo Xiang had a broken leg, which was injured when he was fighting with others.
But Huo Xiangyou still put all the blame on his brother Huo Xiangbin.
He complained that if he had not been allowed to go to school and attend classes normally when he was a child and interact with his peers at school, he would not be able to even communicate peacefully with normal people and would not have caused so many conflicts!
After so many years, Huo Xiangbin has almost become numb.
The last time he knew that Huo Xiangyou had secretly researched zombies with others and even instigated others to kill others, he swore in his heart and told Huo Xiangyou clearly that that was the last time he would help him.
But at this moment, when he heard his brother Huo Xiangyou talk about those things in the past again, he finally couldn't bear to watch him get into trouble.
As Huo Xiangyou told the story of his mother's car accident, his brother Huo Xiangbin's eyes turned red.
He covered his eyes with shame, tears welling up in his eyes.
Seeing him like this, Huo Xiangyou not only did not comfort him, but his tone became even worse.
"You sowed the seeds of evil, and you must pay for it!"
"Your parents said they wouldn't attend your parent-teacher conference, but you insisted on making them go. Not only did you kill them, but you also caused me to be without a mother since I was very young. I wasn't able to grow up in a normal family environment!"
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