Chapter 143: Horse in the gap, fire in the stone, body in the dream
It wasn't until Mei Zi's senior year that Chen Huiping and her husband finally had some free time. Feeling aggrieved for not having spent much time with Mei Zi since she was a child, they decided to take a vacation and took the 11-hour train to visit her at school.
Originally, I went there to see how Mei Zi was doing, to take care of her, and to make up for her parental love. However, this trip caused a complete rift between the two parties.
The second day after they arrived, they happened to catch the school club night event. Mei Zi just said that she couldn't come out because of something, and gave them some travel guides to some lively places in the city and let them go shopping on their own.
But after discussing it, the two of them felt that sightseeing was not important. It would be better to go to the children's school to take a look at the environment and see what the living conditions were like. So they went straight to the school without saying hello to Mei Zi or bothering her.
When I got there, I found out that the club night was actually a performance event. It was quite lively. They had been setting up the stage and lighting since noon, and the decorations were very professional.
The two became interested and stayed until the actual performance in the evening.
As a result, the two of them were stunned when the performance started.
The first performance was Mei Zi wearing a spirited Tai Chi outfit, followed by four students performing Tai Chi on stage.
On the stage, Mei Zi performed each move with impressive skill and grace, drawing applause. The two people in the audience were filled with mixed emotions, feeling proud of her and angry at her for concealing the truth.
After the performance, Mei Zi stayed on the stage. After the host introduced her, the two learned that Mei Zi had founded a Tai Chi club in the school and was the president of the club. The club had recruited twenty or thirty students, all of whom were led by Mei Zi.
The two were very surprised. They didn't know where Mei Zi got so much interest from. They had forced her to interfere once in their senior year of high school, but she was still so enthusiastic.
When the microphone was handed to Mei Zi, Mei Zi and the host asked and answered questions, and the two who were already shocked were even more shocked.
Mei Zi said that she had been practicing Tai Chi for ten years without interruption. She had converted to Taoism and had also taken a Taoist priest as her teacher, learning authentic ancient Tai Chi.
He said his dream is to promote Tai Chi, learn his master's skills, cultivate his character, and become a stylish preacher.
Chen Huiping and her husband could no longer hear what was said afterwards. They felt as if they had been struck by lightning. Their minds were filled with the thought that their daughter had converted to Taoism and would follow a group of mysterious Taoist priests in engaging in feudal superstition.
Chen Huiping panicked and immediately went backstage to intercept Mei Zi who was leaving the stage.
Mei Zi was also very surprised to see the two of them. Seeing that they kept asking her about learning Tai Chi and becoming her apprentice, she refused to answer and just kept driving them out with a tense face.
Mei Zi's resistance made Chen Huiping extremely anxious and angry. At this moment, she heard her daughter arguing with her husband, saying that she ran so far away because she hated their control. It was not enough to control her when she was a child, but now she was hiding so far away, and they had to chase her here to control her.
Chen Huiping was about to slap him, but before she could hit him, Mei Zi grabbed her hand tightly and said that the two of them had been like this for many years and had not changed at all. They would use violence to solve problems if they were not satisfied.
The three of them had a big quarrel in the school playground. Many students came to watch, and nearby teachers also ran over to find out what was going on. The scene became more and more ugly, and finally ended in a bad mood.
The next day, the two calmed down and wanted to have a good talk with Mei Zi, but Mei Zi refused to answer their calls. So they had to go to school again and found her downstairs of the dormitory.
After finding her, the two of them patiently persuaded her, analyzed the current employment situation and the resources at her husband's disposal, and earnestly explained why they insisted that she apply to the School of Architecture, the support her family could give her, and the path they could pave for her.
In the end, Mei Zi said that she didn't care. No matter how noble the road they paved was, she was still at their mercy. She said that her ideal in this life was to live in the mountains and rivers, free and unrestrained.
Neither side could convince the other, and finally Mei Zi became impatient and asked them to just pretend that she had never been born and that she did not exist, and that everyone should turn a blind eye.
The two were so angry that they had another big fight with Mei Zi. Chen Huiping's husband said he wanted to break up with Mei Zi. Mei Zi agreed with a sneer and said it would be better if it was true. She hoped that they would never interfere in her life again.
The two of them were so angry that they left Dong Province that day. They only sent Mei Zi a fixed amount of living expenses every month and never even called her again.
It was not until Mei Zi graduated that Chen Huiping could not help but call Mei Zi again to bring up the old matter, asking her to come back and that her family would arrange a job for her.
As a result, Mei Zi hung up directly, and her bank card was cancelled afterwards, so the two of them couldn't even transfer any money.
It was half a year later that they got in touch again. The police from Dong Province called and asked them to come and pick up Mei Zi. They said Mei Zi was in the hospital. After surgery, she barely survived, but was paralyzed below the chest.
The news was like a bolt from the blue. The two were confused and bought tickets to fly to East Province overnight. After arriving at the hospital, Mei Zi had just woken up. Her eyes were red and swollen. When she saw the two, she just turned her head away stubbornly and said nothing.
After questioning the police, we learned that Mei Zi was acting bravely. Late at night, she encountered a group of gangsters bullying a young girl who looked like she had just left the society in an alley. Mei Zi, relying on her kung fu skills, went up to fight them with her bare hands.
The gangsters had been drinking, and at first the fight was weak, with Mei Zi getting the upper hand, knocking down several of them. But the gangsters had been fighting for years, and their fighting style was fierce. Seeing a group of people being taught a lesson by a little girl, their anger gradually rose, and one by one they started reaching for bricks, pulling out knives, and throwing bottles.
Mei Zi was fending off these attacks while also taking care of the girl next to her. Soon, she was gradually losing the upper hand and was finally stabbed in the spine by one of the gang members. The pain was so severe that she couldn't stand up. She was stabbed thirteen times in a row. The girl next to her was not spared either and was stabbed three times. Finally, the gang members fled, and the girl's boyfriend, who was hiding, called the police.
The knife that stabbed Mei Zi's spine injured her nerves. Although the police were called in time and the ambulance rushed to the scene at the same time, it only saved her life. She was paralyzed from the chest down, which was irreversible.
The three stab wounds on the girl rescued by Mei Zi were only external. After getting stitches and bandages, she struggled to come see Mei Zi. After calling home and paying all of Mei Zi's medical expenses, she cried out of breath and was forcibly isolated by the doctor.
There were no surveillance cameras in the alley. The rescued girl was caught off guard and dragged in, so panicked that she can't remember the faces of the people involved. Her ex-boyfriend, who she's since broken up with, provided a clue: there were seven people, and the leader had dyed blond hair and was in his forties. Police are still searching for the suspect.
Chen Huiping was stunned after hearing this. She couldn't even cry. She just felt like she was dreaming and all her senses were dull in the dream.
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