Lu Ming suddenly looked over, his voice choked with emotion.
"Do you know what? That day, my mother was wearing clothes from several years ago, with patches upon patches on top of patches. On her feet were cloth shoes she made herself from scraps of old clothes that people didn't want, cutting off the usable parts."
And me! The shirt I'm wearing is the one my dad didn't take with him. It's over ten years old and has turned so yellowed that it can't be washed out of its original color.
The shoes I'm wearing are white mesh shoes that my mom picked up from the trash heap.
But when that woman appeared in front of us, she was wearing the most fashionable floral dress at the time, and shiny high-heeled shoes.
I will never forget the stockings on that woman's feet. Because those stockings represented half a month's living expenses for our family.
Lu Ming suddenly turned his head away and remained silent for a long time before speaking again.
"Their daughter, dressed in a Snow White-like dress, pointed at me and said, 'Mommy, are they beggars?'"
Zhou Chunhua lowered her head.
A family is far more important to a child than adults imagine.
In a child's eyes, their parents are their heaven and earth.
For Lu Ming, this was like the sky falling down.
No wonder he suddenly became a different person in his first year of high school.
Put yourself in their shoes, who would still have the mind to read!
"If only your mother had the courage to get a divorce," Zhou Chunhua thought. If she had divorced, things wouldn't have turned out this way.
“Hehe…” Lu Ming suddenly laughed.
But there was a hint of sorrow and resentment in that laughter.
"Yes! But my mom said that she doesn't care if people look down on her or belittle her for the rest of her life. But she can't not think about me. She doesn't want people to point fingers at me or say that I'm a child without a father."
She even worried that if they divorced, my grandparents would be looked down upon and lose face. But she never considered herself.
Zhou Chunhua fell silent.
Looking back at that era, no matter what happened, not getting a divorce was the choice of most people.
After all, at that time, divorced women were looked down upon.
Some parents would even say that as long as they don't beat you to death, you have to live a good life in your husband's family, because they can't bear the shame!
As a result, many women in that era would rather be beaten to death or maimed by their husbands than get a divorce.
This was perhaps the tragedy of women in that era.
"So even though my mother was insulted by them, she still begged my father not to divorce her. She was even willing to let my father live with that woman, even if they didn't give us money, as long as they didn't divorce."
But that woman turned around and ran off with my dad's money. My dad's company also went bankrupt because of the broken cash flow. He started drinking heavily and committing domestic violence.
He said that if my mother had agreed to the divorce back then, he wouldn't have lost everything. Every time he came home drunk, even if my mother was asleep, he would drag her up and beat her.
And each time she did it, it was more serious than the last. But even so, my mother refused to get a divorce. Until…”
Lu Ming suddenly stopped.
Zhou Chunhua looked over in confusion, only to see Lu Ming's whole body tense, his fists clenched so tightly that the veins bulged as he said, "Until I accidentally killed him."
Zhou Chunhua's heart skipped a beat.
"But...you..."
She remembered that Lu Ming had only taken a week of sick leave and had not... gone to a juvenile detention center.
As if hearing her doubts, Lu Ming said, "Yes! I didn't go to the juvenile detention center because my mother took the blame for me."
My grandmother, being very understanding, issued a letter of forgiveness, and my mother was sentenced to life imprisonment. But in less than a month inside, she became like this; nobody knows what happened to her there.
Zhou Chunhua looked at Lu Ming in disbelief.
Lu Ming chuckled and said, "So besides confining my mother for life, what benefits did marriage actually bring her?"
Zhou Chunhua was speechless.
yes!
Before marriage, hitting someone is considered intentional assault and is illegal.
But once married, hitting someone becomes domestic violence, and even if you call the police, they will only give you a few words of reprimand.
So it's never that women need marriage, but rather that marriage needs women.
The Marriage Law has never protected women; in essence, it only protects marriage itself.
She didn't even know what to say to comfort Lu Ming.
A long silence followed.
Lu Ming said softly, "I brought you here today because I want to ask you for a favor."
Zhou Chunhua looked up.
"If one day I'm no longer able to visit her, please make time to come and see her, and talk to her, okay?"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Chunhua frowned.
"What's the meaning?"
Lu Ming suddenly turned to look at her, a faint smile on his lips.
"Because I have no friends, and no one to ask for help. We're classmates, so we're at least friends now, right? I think since we're friends, you wouldn't refuse to do such a small favor, would you?"
Zhou Chunhua was quite apprehensive.
Lu Ming suddenly stood up, placed a kiss on the old lady's head, and then whispered something in her ear.
Even though they were very close, Zhou Chunhua still couldn't hear what Lu Ming said.
"Mom, I'm leaving." Lu Ming rested his head on the old lady's head for a long time before reluctantly turning and walking towards the door.
Zhou Chunhua glanced at the old lady and quickly followed.
As he left, Lu Ming kept looking back inside.
Once in the car, Zhou Chunhua asked, "I've come with you. Can you tell me how to get to Sha Tin Tsui?"
Lu Ming leaned back in his chair, his face expressionless.
"Do you agree to what I just said? If you agree, I'll tell you what you want to know."
Zhou Chunhua hesitated.
After all, she really didn't want to have too much contact with Lu Ming.
But……
In the end, she nodded in agreement.
A smile appeared on Lu Ming's face.
"Go to Lishan."
"You... why are you going back on your word again?"
Lu Ming's lips curled into a smile as he turned to look out the window.
"How did I go back on my word? I only promised to tell you, not now! Don't worry, I'll definitely tell you when we get to Lishan."
Zhou Chunhua frowned deeply, and was thus forced to come to Lishan.
Lishan is the highest mountain in Jiang City, and it is said to be the best place to watch the sunrise and sunset.
You can drive your car to the parking lot halfway up the mountain.
If you want to reach the summit, you have to start from the halfway point and hike up.
Many young couples come here to climb Lishan Mountain together, to watch the sunset and sunrise.
Zhou Chunhua looked at Lu Ming stretching and pressing his legs in front of her, her eyebrows almost twisted into a knot.
She couldn't understand what Lu Ming was really up to.
Lu Ming jumped up and down twice, then turned to her and said, "Let's go!"
"Go? Where to?"
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