Chapter 19
The previous competition ended, and finally it was time for the three groups to compete. The staff helped them tie their legs and stood by to record the time. "The one with the shortest time wins."
Xia Weining and Sheng Huaizhou were both nonchalant and indifferent. The leaders standing by shook their heads and were too embarrassed to say that these were their subordinates.
The other two teams ran very fast in perfect harmony, but they were either bumping into each other or bumping into each other, staggering and unable to move at all. Sheng Huaizhou took big steps, which was equivalent to running with Xia Weining, and her legs were very painful.
"Walk slower, I can't keep up."
"Walk faster."
The two of them had no tacit understanding at all and disliked each other very much, so they started arguing, which made the situation worse. Xia Weining fell directly to the ground, and Sheng Huaizhou was dragged to the ground as well, with half of his body protecting Xia Weining.
The two people who were arguing just now stopped quarreling instantly because they were closer to each other. Their heartbeats accelerated uncontrollably, and an indescribable shyness lingered between them.
Xia Weining was a little nervous, digging the ground with her fingers and pursing her lips. After a while, she finally responded, "You get up first."
Sheng Huaizhou untied the ropes between the two of them and pulled Xia Weining up in a very gentlemanly manner.
“It’s still this person.”
Sheng Huaizhou: ...
They were undoubtedly the last two in line, but no one cared. They ate their food with peace of mind, as if they were not the ones who had made a fool of themselves.
The leaders shook their heads after seeing this and unanimously decided to add the two people to the blacklist.
The last part was the dinner. Director Zhang pulled Xia Weining to sit in the front. Also at the table were Sheng Huaizhuo and his leader. The two leaders felt that they were a match made in heaven and couldn't help but want to bring them together.
"Weining, has Officer Jiasheng been on QQ? You young people should communicate more."
Xia Weining gave the leader a puzzled look. Is it necessary to add QQ?
Under the persuasion of his leader, Sheng Huaizhou took out his mobile phone, and the two of them reluctantly added each other on QQ.
Xia Weining's QQ nickname is "Light Blue Summer", and Sheng Huaizhou nicknamed her "The Cat Who Loves to Explode"
Sheng Huaizhou's QQ nickname is "Xingyao!", and Xia Weining changed his note to "annoying bared-haired dog".
There are already undercurrents between the two of them, while the leader is still saying that beating is love and scolding is care.
Xia Weining's heart was filled with speechless words, but she had to agree with her leader, so she kept smiling foolishly throughout the meal, and her face was stiff after the meal.
The event finally ended. After seeing the leaders off, the others stood at the door to discuss how to leave. Sheng Huaizhou and his group came out of the room and stood next to Xia Weining. They took the initiative to say, "We'll give you a ride."
"No need. Who knows what good intentions you have."
Sheng Huaizhou sneered, "It's just a side trip, you don't have to think too much about it."
Xia Weining saw Zheng Rui and Chu Yu standing nearby. They lived in the same complex, so it was indeed very convenient to take a ride. It was already dark, so it was better not to cause trouble for herself. Thinking of this, she smiled sincerely and said, "That would be troublesome."
"Hey, why did you suddenly change your mind?"
"Officer Sheng sincerely invited me, so I couldn't refuse. I could only agree reluctantly."
Sheng Huaizhou snorted coldly and rolled his eyes to the sky. He was completely convinced by Xia Weining's words.
Zheng Rui and Chu Yu were laughing secretly on the side. It was rare for someone to make Sheng Huaizhou look so humiliated.
Xia Weining finally got in their car and sat in the back with Chu Yu. They reviewed today's social gathering. Zheng Rui, who was a know-it-all, talked about how many couples had formed there. He became more and more excited as he talked, which aroused everyone's curiosity and the car was bustling with activity.
Sheng Huaizhou was busy driving and spoke very little the entire time. Only when talking about the food for the dinner did he glance at Xia Weining in the rearview mirror and subconsciously asked, "You don't eat fish?"
Xia Weining was stunned and caught off guard. She quickly looked up to meet his eyes and was distracted for a moment.
She didn't know what to say, and she didn't understand why Sheng Huaizhou noticed her.
After hesitating, he nodded as an answer.
In fact, it’s not that she doesn’t like eating fish. She just thinks it’s troublesome to eat fish. The fish will get stuck and she needs to remove the bones with her hands. It’s very awkward to eat and she doesn’t want to make a fool of herself.
Therefore, I rarely eat fish in front of outsiders, especially during dinner parties.
She is afraid of convenience when she says it, but she wants to maintain her image, and she can put herself in a difficult position for this.
Xia Weining sometimes wonders why her personality is so contradictory.
The essence is still lack of confidence.
She describes herself as reserved and tense. She also wants to feel relaxed, but she just can't learn it.
Various thoughts were constantly fighting in her mind, often making her tired and headache. This was internal consumption. After being exhausted, she felt a sense of decadence that was not in line with her age, and seemed so powerless.
Thinking of this, Xia Weining suddenly smiled bitterly.
Because I think so much about what others say.
The next day, the weekend.
The students have returned to school, and Xia Weining doesn't need to go to school, so she goes to the supermarket to buy some things and prepares to visit her grandparents.
As soon as she reached the door, she heard voices from inside the house. She hesitated for a moment, gently opened the door, and said with a smile, "Grandpa and grandma, I'm here to see you."
"Girl, come quickly." Grandma welcomed her into the house and introduced the people behind her with a smile, "This is my son Xia Weiguo and my daughter-in-law Zhou Caimei. They just came back from out of town."
With a "bang", the thing in Xia Weining's hand fell to the ground. She looked at her parents behind her in a daze, tears streaming down her face.
Her action scared everyone.
"Kid, what's wrong with you?"
"Dad, Mom." She cried out with sobs.
Everyone was even more shocked when they heard her call her that. Her mother looked at her worriedly, her eyes full of questions, while her father touched his head awkwardly, not knowing how to respond.
It was Grandpa who came out to smooth things over. "Don't just stand there. Sit down." He explained to Xia Weiguo and Zhou Caimei, "This girl is just like that. She cries when she sees anyone. Don't be surprised."
"Come on, sit down."
Although her mother welcomed her warmly, Xia Weining could feel a sense of strangeness. This was not surprising, because to her parents, she was a stranger, and a very strange stranger at that.
After washing the fruit, grandma brought it into the house and explained to Xia Weiguo and Zhou Caimei, "Her name is Xia Weining, and she's Li Li's teacher. She's very enthusiastic and always takes good care of me and your dad. She helps us a lot and often brings gifts to visit us."
"It's Teacher Xia." Zhou Caimei smiled, "Thank you for your help."
"Mom, you're welcome. This is what I should do."
This name was like a bomb, but instead of causing a big explosion, it cooled the atmosphere.
Silent, awkward, dull.
Everyone's eyes were full of suspicion.
Suspect Xia Weining.
It doesn't make sense why a normal adult would repeatedly call someone by the wrong name.
Zhou Caimei looked at Xia Weining. She was about the same age as herself, so it was strange for her to call her "Mom".
Xia Weining reacted in the face of everyone's puzzled gazes, and choked up as she changed her words: "Uncle and Auntie."
…
Xia Weiguo and Zhou Caimei still couldn't accept this title. They exchanged glances, and Zhou Caimei smiled and said, "It's not much of a difference. If you don't mind, just call me sister."
Xia Weining was stunned. She called her mother "sister" and she said she would do nothing.
"Xia Li calls me sister, it's not a generation difference."
"You girl doesn't know the seriousness of the matter. How can I call you sister?"
Xia Weining was embarrassed and smiled, "It's okay, I like hearing Xia Li call me sister."
She was really in a dilemma this time. How should she address her parents? They were almost the same age and had clear generations.
"It's settled, I'll call you uncle and aunt."
She quickly decided on this matter, and no one else could say anything.
While eating, Xia Weining felt very happy eating the food her mother made, and tears flowed down her face involuntarily.
"Why are you crying again?" Zhou Caimei hurriedly got her some paper.
Xia Weining's eyes were always stealing glances at her parents. It turned out that this was what they looked like when they were young.
In fact, she was full of apologies to her parents. She had done too many wrong things and her heart was full of regret.
My thoughts can't help but go back to the past.
She grew up in a poor family and was often looked down upon. Few people played with her, so she gradually developed a people-pleasing personality. Afraid that others would not play with her, she always stole money to buy things for her friends to maintain the so-called friendship.
One time she asked her mother for money, but her mother said there was no money at home. She then threw a tantrum and insisted on getting money because she wanted to buy food for her friends.
In the end, the nanny had no choice but to give her fifty cents, but she lost it and cried so hard.
After I got home, I told my mother that the money was lost. My mother said it was okay and that I could just consider it as a way to ward off bad luck.
Her mother didn't scold her the whole time and kept comforting her.
But she didn't restrain herself. She knew where the money was kept at home, and she would often steal money and buy things for her friends so that they would play with her.
At that time, she did not realize that there was anything wrong with this. Later, when those friends left her one by one, she realized how sad it was to use the money her parents had worked hard to earn to maintain a meaningless friendship.
The mistake has been made, how can it be easily corrected? It will only get worse.
When I was a child, I didn’t want to go to school, so I poured cold water on my head and pretended to be sick to skip classes. As a result, I really got sick and had a low-grade fever. This low but persistent fever was difficult to treat, and I was sick almost all year round.
My parents took me to see a doctor every day. At that time, transportation was bad, so we had to walk very far to see a doctor.
She was filled with guilt and self-blame, but she never had the courage to speak out about it.
The low-grade fever lasted until high school and even affected her college entrance exam. She often took leave to get injections to enhance her immunity. She took too many leave, which made her teachers dissatisfied.
She still remembers the scene of breaking down and crying while talking to her parents on the phone in the corridor. She once decided to drop out of school, but finally she decided to grit her teeth and hold on until the college entrance examination.
At that time, she understood that people would eventually have to pay the price for the wrong things they did, but the price was painful and heavy. If she could do it again, she would never do it again.
Thinking about it now, when she was a child, she would make trouble and attack her family members, giving all her patience and warmth to irrelevant people, and leaving the knives and harm to the family members who loved her the most. Xia Weining took a deep breath, and she also hated her past self.
At this time, her mood was not right. She thought about her mother asking her to tie her hair before going out to work, and she didn't want to let it down for three days until the back was a mess.
At that time, she often stood in front of the river at the door and said, "If it's not about reconciliation, why should we separate?" She even thought that the "Li" in her name meant separation.
Sometimes it’s not all big things that affect people. All the insignificant things when gathered together form the ocean that can swallow everything.
Xia Weining's emotions gradually became extreme. She thought of many good things, such as when she was a child, she blamed her mother for being incompetent and said in public that it would be great if she had a mother like others.
She will always remember the look in her mother's eyes, and self-blame and regret surged up in her all at once, so fast that she was caught off guard.
She raised her hand and slapped herself. This slap made her sink deeper into the pain of the past, and she felt deeply guilty towards her family.
This is just a small part. She still remembers many more wrong things she has done, too many, which are obviously small things but can hurt people deeply.
Although she had a heart-to-heart talk with her mother when she was in her second year of high school, saying that she had done a lot and said a lot of hurtful things to her family.
She admitted her mistake to her mother, but her mother told her that it was not true and told her not to overthink it. She chose to forgive her.
She thought that this would let her go, but she still couldn't heal herself or forgive herself. These memories lingered in her mind, becoming clearer and clearer, torturing her over and over again.
Xia Weining's emotions completely collapsed. All the pain in the past surrounded her and devoured her reason and emotions bit by bit.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I really know I was wrong."
She hit herself and apologized, completely entering a state of unconscious madness.
Zhou Caimei was shocked, "Mom, what happened to her?"
Grandma's expression was somewhat serious. After a while, she murmured, "Help her to the bed and hold her down. I'm afraid she's possessed by something."
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