Chapter 219
This was the time when grandma confessed her feelings.
Only then did Zhong Linzhi understand why such an elegant, beautiful and well-read grandmother would marry an old, rude and ugly grandfather.
Why in her memory, grandma never gave grandpa a good look.
Because grandpa is a rapist.
Lu Jingzhi, who was studying abroad at the time, received the news that his mother was ill and returned to his hometown to visit her.
On the night Lu Jingzhi was accompanying the patient in the hospital, he was raped by a rough man pulling a rickshaw while sleeping in the dormitory next to the ward.
That year, Lu Jingzhi was 19 years old and Zhong Dagui was 30 years old.
Just that one time, Lu Jingzhi became pregnant with her eldest son.
"Back then, your Grandpa Wen and I were already discussing marriage, all that was missing was meeting the parents."
"And now I'm pregnant with someone else's child, and my family is pressuring me to get married. I can't tell your Grandpa Wen that I was raped, so I can only write him a letter to unilaterally announce our breakup."
"He probably still doesn't understand why we swore to be together through thick and thin, but everything changed just because he went back home."
"We never contacted each other again. When your father was about ten years old, I met a classmate who also studied in Lanzhou."
"I heard that he has never been married and has been looking for me..."
There were tears of unwillingness in Lu Jingzhi's hazel eyes.
That incident caused a lot of uproar at the time, and the Lu family was influenced by public opinion.
In addition, the family members felt ashamed and in line with contemporary moral values, the family forced Lu Jingzhi and Zhong Dagui to hold a wedding, gave them a dowry, and let Zhong Dagui take Lu Jingzhi back to his hometown.
Zhong Dagui's family was very poor. He bought a house and opened a shop in the county town with the dowry brought by Lu Jingzhi.
Lu Jingzhi only had time to write a farewell letter to her elder brother Wen, and then followed Zhong Dagui away from home and disappeared in his world.
Zhong Dagui is not a good person. He loves drinking and commits domestic violence. Later, he raped Lu Jingzhi multiple times during his marriage.
"You should have heard that you have two aunts, one is your father's younger sister, and the other is your uncle's twin sister!"
"But none of them survived, all because of your grandfather!"
"Your grandfather said that girls are a waste of money. There's no point in keeping them. They'll just become cheap to others in the future."
"Less than two months after I gave birth to your father, I got pregnant with your aunt again. I had no one to help me, and Zhong Dagui loved to drink and beat people up."
"Your aunt gave birth prematurely. She was born before the full term and is very weak."
"Later, Zhong Dagui took us to visit relatives. On the way, he took advantage of me falling asleep and abandoned your aunt."
"Your aunt was just over one year old at that time."
"When I went back to look for her, she was already dead. It was so cold and raining so hard. He threw her into the ditch!"
"You're so old now, I'm not afraid of dirtying your ears."
"I hate your grandfather and don't want to live with him, but I'm not as strong as him. I can only cover my face with a handkerchief and avoid looking at him."
"He slapped me in the face again and again."
"When your father was only three years old, he secretly gave your father to someone else for adoption without telling me."
"I chased him for more than ten miles, knelt down and kowtowed to others, and finally got your father back."
"After that, your second uncle and aunt got pregnant unexpectedly. Zhong Dagui was out playing cards and drinking all day and never came home."
"I'm pregnant, I'm taking care of your father, and I have to take care of the shop business."
"Back then, Zhong Dagui would often go home and rob the shop of money, not only to play cards but also to share with your aunt and the others."
"His brothers and sisters all praise him, saying he is capable and promising."
"He's been flattered to such an extent that he's gone completely mad. He's even robbed us of the money we used to buy goods."
"Later, for the sake of my three children, I had no choice but to fight with a kitchen knife, but I still couldn't protect your aunt."
Lu Jingzhi's face was full of sadness.
"She was protecting me when your grandpa and aunt came to rob me of my money. She was pushed out and hit the back of her head on a rock and died."
"The blood was so flowing that the entire front of my shirt was soaked."
"The doctor said he could have been saved, but they stopped him, saying country kids weren't that valuable and it was a waste of money to send him to the hospital. They just covered him with some pot ash and spider webs."
"By the time I finally carried her to the hospital, she was already dead."
"I will always remember the words your aunt said to me before she died."
"She said, 'Mom, I can't be with you anymore. Don't hide under the locust tree and cry alone.'"
"She said, 'Mom, please stop eating rotten food.'"
"She said, Mom, don't marry Dad in your next life."
It was the death of these two daughters that caused Lu Jingzhi's character to begin to distort. She changed from a gentle and elegant woman to a strong and aggressive woman.
So when Zhong Dagui fell seriously ill later, she signed a document to give up on his rescue and calmly found someone to bury him.
She didn't even notify her relatives to come and see him for the last time.
As soon as Zhong Dagui passed away, Lu Jingzhi forcefully kicked all his belongings out of the house and burned them.
She even forbade her two younger sons to visit Zhong Dagui's grave, and she also forcefully demanded that her children and grandchildren change their surnames. They could have any other surname except Zhong.
She was so strong that her two sons and grandchildren hated her.
Lu Jingzhi took out a wooden box and opened it to show Zhong Linfang.
There is a photo of her and her first love, Brother Wen. She is wearing a student uniform from the Republic of China and a handsome man in a military uniform, looking at the camera with sweet smiles on their faces.
There was also something like a yellow invoice, which was the divorce certificate between her and Zhong Dagui.
The date on the divorce certificate is 1959.
"Your grandfather and I actually divorced a long time ago, but for the sake of your father and uncle, we never made it public."
"At this time, when parents divorce, the children also have to be criticized by others."
"So we still live together, but sleep in separate rooms."
"What hurts me the most is your father and uncle."
"I raised them all by myself, married them off, gave them children, and arranged jobs for them."
"They clearly know how Zhong Dagui treated me in the past."
"Zhong Dagui is so much older than me and has bullied me for half my life. Now that he's old, I can finally take revenge on him."
Zhong Linfang thought about what happened to her grandfather later. Although it was revenge, she actually never treated her grandfather well.
They made him work all day, spoke ill of him, confiscated my grandfather's salary, and only gave him two dollars a month.
"But I didn't expect that after Zhong Dagui got old, he would start to treat his children and grandchildren well."
"He uses the one or two yuan of pocket money he saves every month to buy fruit toys for his grandchildren."
"He often goes to your father and uncle to deliver vegetables he grows himself."
"Your father and uncle suddenly felt sorry for Zhong Dagui."
"They started to have problems with me, thinking I was too strong."
"When I needed protection, they were still young and needed me to protect them. When they grew up and could protect me, they chose to protect Zhong Dagui."
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