Chapter 71 Like an unwanted child [VIP]
A lifetime of dampness makes it difficult to save oneself.
——Orange Confessions
That night, Zhen Hao worked until late at night, and in the second half of the night he almost stared at the ceiling with his eyes open until dawn.
The next morning, she received a call from He Yunlian: "You and Amei, come back here, right now!"
"What happened?" Zhen Hao rubbed his forehead with a headache.
"What's the matter? Wait until you come back and ask your useless dad in person and you'll know." He Yunlian's voice rose a few notches.
Hearing this, Zhen Hao's heart skipped a beat, and a vague guess slowly formed in his mind.
Zhen Dongcheng's affair could not be concealed after all, and debt collection calls were made to everyone in the Zhen family.
When the Zhen Hao sisters arrived home, He Yunlian was pointing at Zhen Dongcheng and demanding, "Tell me, how much money do you owe? Huh?!"
"Why are you asking so many questions? Can you help or what?" Zhen Dongcheng kept silent.
Seeing that He Yunlian was about to take action, Zhen Hao stopped her in time: "Mom, we are back."
As she guessed, Zhen Dongcheng's debt to the bank was exposed.
"Dad, now that things have come to this, there's nothing to hide." Zhen Hao had already prepared himself mentally for this day, so his expression didn't change much.
Zhen Mei was extremely worried: "Sister, what happened?"
"Yeah, what's going on? Tell me, Zhen Dongcheng!" He Yunlian looked much older due to long-term lack of sleep, and even looked a little ferocious when she spoke harshly. "Why do you owe the bank money? How much do you owe?!"
"One..." Zhen Dongcheng closed his eyes tightly and shouted loudly, as if he had risked everything. "One million!"
"How much...how much?" He Yunlian's eyes widened when she heard the number. "How much do you owe?"
"One million, one million, one million!" Zhen Dongcheng was tired of being asked and answered several times in a row, "I owe one million, is that okay?"
"One million..." He Yunlian repeated with trembling lips, and then began to cry, "Why is my life so miserable? Not only did I not have a few days of good life after marrying you, but now I have to bear such a huge debt in my old age... My life is so miserable!"
One million is undoubtedly an astronomical figure for the Zhen family. Zhen Mei's face turned pale, and it was at this moment that she finally understood something: "Sister, so that's why you sold the new car you just bought, right?"
She drove Chen Yi's car to pick up Zhen Hao at Banshan Manor last night.
"What? You sold the car?!" He Yunlian found it even harder to accept and cried even louder, "Zhen Dongcheng, it's all because of you, useless guy. This family has lost everything... Gone, everything is gone... My life is so miserable..."
"Mom, do you want to be laughed at by the neighbors?" Zhen Hao's sudden words stopped He Yunlian from crying.
She understands best what He Yunlian values, so she can accurately grasp the key points.
He Yunlian loves appearance the most and cares the most about what others think of her. Bringing out her own people has no deterrent effect on her, but as long as she mentions outsiders laughing at her, it is more effective than any other trick.
"I have no money..." After a long while, He Yunlian finally squeezed out these three words.
"I didn't expect you to help..." Zhen Dongcheng choked.
"You guys stop arguing, I'm going to ask grandma to make me some noodle soup." Zhen Hao said as he walked towards the inner room.
Her calmness silenced Zhen Dongcheng and his wife. They looked at each other in silence.
Zhen Mei trotted after Zhen Hao and said, "Sister, wait for me. I want to eat the noodle soup made by grandma, too."
The noodle soup made by Grandma Zhen tastes like home and you can never find the same one anywhere else.
In the following days, Zhen Hao ran between the bank and various places related to car sales. He was so busy that he almost had no time to take care of his work.
Her extreme busyness left her no time to care about the sadness of the breakup. Every day when she opened her eyes, countless things were waiting for her. By the time she finally finished her work late at night, she was so tired that she fell asleep as soon as she hit the bed.
After paying off part of Zhen Dongcheng's debt and rationally planning the repayment of the remaining debt, Zhen Hao was faced with a new problem - He Yunlian's condition was getting worse.
After discussion, the Zhen family decided to let He Yunlian move to another place to change her environment to see if it could help her adjust her mood.
That is, I moved to the house rented by Zhen Hao and her sister and stayed there temporarily for a while.
On the first day He Yunlian moved in, the two sisters began their nightmare life.
During meals——
He Yunlian: "The rice is too hard and makes my stomach uncomfortable."
Zhen Hao: "Then eat more vegetables, or dumplings."
He Yunlian: "The dishes are too bland. I can't eat the dumplings. I feel full just by looking at them."
Zhen Hao: “…”
While walking——
He Yunlian: "I feel so weak that I can't walk anymore."
Zhen Hao: "Then let's go back."
I can’t breathe.”
Zhen Hao: “…”
Shopping malls——
He Yunlian: "The heating is too hot."
, get out."
what. "
Zhen Hao: “…”
When sleeping——
, is the window open?"
Zhen Hao: “It’s open.”
He Yunlian: "Xiaomei, open the door too."
Zhen Mei: "The door is open."
He Yunlian: "Okay, I still feel stuffy and can't breathe."
Zhen Hao: "Then I'll call 120?"
He Yunlian: "No, no, I won't be able to stop. If everyone knows I went to the hospital, I'll be so embarrassed."
Zhen Hao: “…”
After a week of this, Zhen Hao and Zhen Mei's mental state was on the verge of collapse.
On the weekend that they finally had off, the two of them didn't even dare to stay at home for long and went to a coffee shop near their home together.
Zhen Mei slumped down on the table, looking hopeless and saying, "Sister, if this continues, there will be two more menopausal women in the family."
"I agree." Zhen Hao has experienced so many things and is mentally stronger than many people, but it is obviously not enough in front of He Yunlian.
"What should I do, sister..." Before Zhen Mei finished her words, the phone on the table rang.
She suddenly jumped up and hit her knee hard on the corner of the table, causing her to gasp in pain.
"Answer it, it's okay." Zhen Hao looked at Zhen Mei who looked embarrassed and encouraged her.
The result is predictable. He Yunlian scolded Zhen Mei fiercely: "You just despise me, your old mother. You don't have me in your heart anymore..."
Zhen Mei was scolded so badly that she couldn't utter a word.
If He Yunlian lost her temper, Zhen Mei could still have a quarrel with her, but she always complained in a pitiful and aggrieved tone, and choked with sobs from time to time. No one could stand this.
After He Yunlian finally said she was tired and hung up the phone, Zhen Hao's phone soon rang.
The two sisters looked at each other and had the answer in their hearts.
The answer was correct. It was He Yunlian who called. As soon as the call was connected, she said in a tearful voice, "Okay, I just can't figure it out. Why can't the relationship between us three mothers and daughters go any further... Okay, tell me, what should I do..."
Faced with this question, Zhen Hao was silent for a long time. She didn't know how to answer because she didn't have the answer in her heart.
He Yunlian said a lot more, mostly expressing her regret that the relationship between mother and daughter was not as close as that of others, and complaining that they would rather sit in a coffee shop than stay at home with her.
Zhen Hao and Zhen Mei were both helpless, but they could only go home reluctantly.
After returning home, He Yunlian became even more violent, crying and making a fuss, repeating the same things over and over again. Besides complaining about God's blindness, she also scolded Zhen Dongcheng for being useless. When she got tired of talking, she started to say that her three children despised her and didn't want her anymore...
Zhen Hao was so troubled that he couldn't shoot videos and had no inspiration to write copy. He was exhausted both physically and mentally.
Unlike Zhen Mei, who could temporarily escape from this suffocating room on weekdays, she had to share a room with He Yunlian almost 24 hours a day.
He Yunlian now seems to have a huge emotional black hole. No matter how much positive energy is thrown into it, it will be swallowed up completely, and may even backfire countless times, making anyone who gets close to her full of resentment.
He Yunlian tormented Zhen Hao for the entire weekend. After she cried and asked the two sisters why they were not close to her, Zhen Hao had a dream all night.
He Yunlian is always in my dreams.
The first dream was when Zhen Hao was five years old.
The pitch-black night, the adults’ messy footsteps, and the flickering flashlights made up that night of escape.
In order to have a younger brother, the Zhen family fled to various parts of the country overnight, and the family was separated from then on.
Zhen Hao was left in Min Town and lived with Zhen Yudong.
Many of her childhood memories have faded, but she will always remember the blazing fire in the yard; she also remembers the livestock poisoned to death by evildoers, the pigs gutted and bloodshot; and she remembers the terror of sleeping in the middle of the night when a vicious neighbor with an axe hit her door...
These scenes, some bright red, some dark, made up her damp childhood that could never clear up.
A lifetime of moisture.
It is difficult to save yourself.
The second dream was when Zhen Hao was twelve years old. Zhen Yudong died suddenly of an acute illness, and He Yunlian returned to her hometown in Minzhen from Tianjin.
That was Zhen Hao's first memory of her mother. Back then, He Yunlian was young and beautiful, with a fashionable perm and a beautiful dyed hair color. She smiled and reached out to touch the daughter who had never grown up with her and was now a big child. But Zhen Hao dodged her hand, hiding behind Grandma Zhen with a wary look on her face.
It was very strange. Zhen Hao knew she was dreaming and knew that this dream was a projection of the past, but she still cried like an unwanted child in her dream.
What made her even more sad was that this was not a metaphor.
She has been an unwanted child since she was young.
The scene shifted, and in the third dream, she was already in junior high school, being lectured by He Yunlian over her 20 yuan living expenses. Back at school, she saw her classmates all wearing beautiful clothes and shoes bought by their mothers, their backpacks stuffed with snacks and their pockets filled with her mother's pocket money. She often wondered, puzzled, why was my mother different from others?
As winter turns to spring, Zhen Hao grows up. She begins to understand that her parents don't really love her that much, and that she needs to love herself first. However, He Yunlian tells her, "We paid for your college education. Now that you're working, you need to work hard. Your brother will need your help in getting married."
She had her first major argument with He Yunlian. She sharply and resolutely stated that she would never support her brother's life in the future, and even taunted him, "If you can't afford a wife, don't marry. Don't ruin other people's daughters, okay?"
He Yunlian was so angry that she ignored her for several months.
This is also one of the reasons why Zhen Hao is obsessed with buying a house.
When she woke up in the middle of the night, she reached out and touched her face, which was wet.
She cried in her dreams and she cried outside of her dreams.
There was a feeling of suffocation in her heart, making her feel uncomfortable.
In order not to affect Zhen Mei's work, He Yunlian lives in the same room with Zhen Hao.
Worried about waking up He Yunlian, she got up quietly and went to the balcony with her cell phone.
The moment he unlocked his phone, the girl with a gentle smile on the wallpaper caught Zhen Hao's eye.
Only then did she realize that she had taken He Yunlian's phone by mistake.
He Yunlian’s mobile phone wallpaper was taken on Zhen Hao’s 28th birthday. She has a gentle smile and light in her eyes.
At that time, she had not experienced betrayal, nor had she experienced separation and reunion.
Zhen Hao held He Yunlian's cell phone tightly. It seemed like the first time she felt a faint maternal love from her mother.
Even if it was just a little bit, she greedily wanted to have it.
The dark balcony, the thin back, the bright moonlight, and the suppressed crying.
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