When I got home from work, I opened the package with Qi's mother and found walnuts, hazelnuts, dried mushrooms, and dried meat inside. There was a letter at the very bottom.
Seeing that familiar handwriting, her eyes filled with tears, and she quickly tore open the letter: "Zhifang, seeing this letter is like seeing you in person. It's been over a year since we parted, and I've missed you dearly. Wishing you well!"
She bit her lower lip tightly, afraid to utter a sound. Her tired face was now covered with tears, which slid silently down her cheeks like broken pearls. Her hands gripped the letter tightly, as if she were trying her best to suppress the pain in her heart, her knuckles turning white from the force.
As if she had finally found an outlet for the grievances she had suffered over the past year, her love and her lover had not abandoned her.
She turned around, ran into the house, picked up a pen, and wrote a four-page letter to Xiao Hu. Just as she was about to leave, she saw Wang Dong standing at the door. "Mom, where are you going?"
Qi Zhifang pretended to be calm and hid the letter behind her back, saying, "It's nothing, I have something to do outside."
Wang Dong chuckled, "You wrote to Xiao Hu again, didn't you? You've reconnected with Xiao Hu? Have you thought about us at all? If your letter gets intercepted, do you know what we'll be facing? You're a grown man, can't you calm down and not act impulsively?"
Qi Zhifang's tears welled up again. "What do you mean? What did I do wrong? It was wrong of me to write him a letter. So... you mean you want to lock me in this room, and I have to come back every day after cleaning the toilets, and I can't have any contact with anyone, I can't talk to any man, is that it?"
Wang Dong angrily slammed his fist on the door and shouted, "Haven't you talked to men enough? Haven't you done enough with men? I don't care about you anymore. You can do whatever you want, but please don't hurt us! Who is he? He's a criminal. Didn't you implicate us enough last time? I was working perfectly fine in the arsenal workshop, and now you've dragged me down to being a cleaner. At least I still have a job. But if you commit another crime this time, I won't even have a job. How am I supposed to support Honghong? I beg you! I'm not asking you to take responsibility for raising the child, but as a mother, can't you think about us children? You've already ruined our political future. How much worse do you want to ruin it before you're satisfied?"
Qi Zhifang broke down and screamed, "How did I regret it? Wang Dong, do you even have a conscience?! Your father is gone, and I raised you all single-handedly with great difficulty..."
Wang Dong said angrily, "How dare you say you raised us with such hardship? Do you have any shame?"
How could you say such a thing? You spent all of my father's pension and the money you made by scamming men out there, on yourself. In the end, you forced us to leave and go back to our grandparents' house.
Grandma had to care for Grandpa, who was paralyzed in bed. She herself was in poor health, and we survived those famine years thanks to my uncle's help. Do you know how we got through those years? Did you even glance at us once? Did you fulfill your responsibilities as a mother? Just when things were finally settling down, you started getting involved with men—no, I mean, you did those despicable things, dragging us down with you. How many more people do you have to harm before you stop? Before you realize you were wrong? Do you know? We're risking our lives and our political futures to remind you to change!
Qi Zhifang stared wide-eyed in disbelief, forgetting to cry. "You, you, what do you mean by that? Huh? You're blaming me, aren't you? What right do you have to blame me? Why don't you blame your father? If he hadn't abandoned us, a widow and her children, would we be in this situation today?"
Wang Dong watched with a broken heart as Qi Zhifang spat out through gritted teeth, "How dare you be with my dad? Have you even seen him since he passed away? Have you forgotten him already? That's right, if you hadn't forgotten him, you wouldn't be able to be so carefree with so many men. Aunt Wei is right, you're juggling eight relationships at once. You still don't understand how to date, but you've certainly mastered the art of being a slut. You've lived this long, what is your heart made of?"
Qi Zhifang was furious. Her chest heaved rapidly as she gasped for breath, her eyes blazing with rage. She gritted her teeth and screamed hysterically, "No matter how old I am, I'm still a human being! You bastard, you beast, how dare you say that to me? When you were little, I suppressed my feelings, thinking I'd wait until you grew up. Now that you're all grown up, can't I still pursue my own feelings?"
Wang Dong said disdainfully, "Stop talking about feelings. Talking about feelings is something for us young people. At your age, you should think about the responsibilities and obligations of being a mother. Not only have you ruined the lives of the three of us siblings, but you also want to ruin our children? In the future, people will not only talk about the three of us siblings, but they will also point at our children and say that your maternal grandmother is a promiscuous woman who has been promiscuous from her youth to her old age!"
"You bastard!" A sharp slap landed on Qi Zhifang's face, and everything froze. Qi Zhijun entered and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you arguing again?"
Wang Dong sneered, "My mother is being all love-loving again, she can't wait to comfort the labor camp inmates!"
"Shut up!" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" The three shouts came from different people...
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