Trish’s eyes were red and I patted her back and took her into my arms.
“Your mother was infatuated, it was your father who didn’t know how to cherish it.” I said.
“I know, but what can I do? My mum has such a high IQ that she can’t even convince herself, and the rest of us persuading her is like a debate, we can’t win her over. I once advised my dad that since he really didn’t like my mum anymore, he should let her go and never come to see her in the nursing home. But my father didn’t want to. He would visit my mother every now and then, sometimes to be nice to her, sometimes to torment her. I suspect he has a grudge against my mother and keeps tormenting her in this way.”
When Chu Xiaoxiao got to the sad part, she couldn’t stop her tears from falling down.
I thought of Zhang Mei’s hatred for me, something that everyone is too heartbroken to mention in detail, and Zhang Mei’s hatred for me had no origin; his husband could not be considered my parents’ death at all.
“I’m going to the bathroom.” Chu Xiaoxiao said, wiping tears from her eyes.
I stared at her back until she turned into the bathroom, thinking to myself that I would never let Chu Xiaoxiao suffer the same way her mother did.
As I was thinking this, I felt someone standing in front of me, and when I turned around, it was none other than Chu Xiaoxiao’s mother.
“Auntie ……”
I had a lot of words ready, but I forgot them all at this time, and I stuttered.
Chu’s mother was very kind and squeezed my shoulder, “Good boy, sit down, how long have you been here?”
I hoped that Chu Xiaoxia would come back soon, otherwise I was really afraid that I would accidentally say the wrong thing, but Chu Xiaoxia did not come out in the toilet, so I had no choice but to take Chu’s mother’s words with a firm hand.
“Just arrived, auntie you are tired, hurry up and sit down.”
“Not tired, the more a mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the happier she is. You sit down quickly, I didn’t think I could one day tie the knot with Ji Yanran and Zhang Jun, haha, it’s rare to have something to be happy about after so many days.”
“You know my parents?”
That I really didn’t expect, but since Han Kun and Chu Huaien had dealings, it wasn’t surprising that Chu Huaien and my parents knew each other.
“Of course, as soon as I saw your face, I knew that you were Ji Yanran’s son, your eyes look especially like hers, but your mouth looks like your father’s. Your parents and I were good friends, your father was in my cla*s, and it was your mother who pulled the strings for me to marry Huaien, and I never thought we’d end up as in-laws.”
I always felt that one part of her was looking at me and the other ninety-nine parts were looking at my parents, muttering that she was so happy to be in-laws with Ji Yanran.
When Chu Xiaoxiao came back, she saw that her mother and I were having a good time and put her mind at ease, pulling her mother’s hand and pampering her: “Mom, how did I do with this boyfriend?”
Chu’s mother laughed, “Very good, mum is very happy. I’m afraid your father will object. But ah, you shouldn’t bring him to see mum, mum is now in this state …… Xiaochao, don’t worry, this disease of mine is not hereditary, it is caused by heart worry, not an intellectual defect.”
“You are too modest, if you are considered intellectually defective, we are all considered brainless.” I pointed to the chessboard on the table and laughed to myself.
Chu’s mother laughed loudly and put her arm around Chu Xiaoxiao, these two mothers and daughters looked surprisingly like two sisters.
Chu Xiaoxiao asked, “Mom, then I don’t care about my dad, I want to marry Zhang Chao.”
Chu’s mother pressed Chu Xiaoxiao’s nose: “You’ve been shameless since you were a little girl, you’re just like your future mother-in-law. When she comes back in the future, let’s see who is more cheeky when you two get along.”
My mother has been gone for many years, and if she really came back, she would scare Chu Xiaoxiao to death.
But it looked like Chu’s mum and my mum had a good relationship, so Chu Xiaoxiao and I looked at each other and both decided not to tell Chu’s mum about it, lest we stimulate her to have a fit.
“By the way, Xiaochao you come and watch the chess game, this is the stump game your mother and I played back then, I haven’t figured out how to crack it yet. Your mother said she’d give me twenty years to solve the game. Twenty years have almost pa*sed and I still haven’t figured it out at all. She’ll be laughing at me when she gets back. Your mother is a genius who won’t admit defeat at all, she set this game up to beat me.”
My mother had pa*sed away many years ago and I knew very little about her, not as much as she did.
“Mom, take a rest for a while, I’ll take Zhang Chao to get you something to drink.”
“Okay, okay, go and come back quickly.”
I was relieved when Chu Xiaoxiao found an excuse to pull me away, if I had continued to make it up, I really wouldn’t have known what to say.
“I can’t believe it eh, my mum and your mum are good friends eh.”
“That means we’re just meant to be from a previous generation, you’d have to marry me if you didn’t.”
Chu Xiaoxiao made a face at me and said, “But it’s really strange, how come I’ve never heard my mum say that? I always come to talk to her and she never mentions these things to me.”
“Probably doesn’t remember.”
Chu Xiaoxiao nodded, but then she added, “It’s really strange, when your parents had the accident, my mother was still mentally normal, why doesn’t she remember about your parents? It can’t be, and my mother is usually normal, she didn’t look like she was having a fit just now.”
I felt that we normal people could never guess what a mentally ill person was thinking, but I didn’t say that because I was afraid that Chu Xiaoxiao would be sad.
“Ah!!!”
Suddenly, a scream came from behind us, and I turned my head to see that Richard Jiang was holding a basin of hot water and was about to throw it on Chu’s mother, whose neck was red and had been splashed a little.
The redness on her neck was already a little bit of hot water, but Jiang Kai wasn’t satisfied with that much, he wanted to pour the whole tub of hot water over her.
We were too far away from there, it was definitely too late to rush over to save her, and there was no one around Chu’s mother.
“Ouch!!!”
Chu Xiaoxiao and I both had bloodless faces and were worried when suddenly Jiang Kai’s other leg bent and he fell to his knees on the ground, the whole basin of boiling water was splashed and he happened to kneel in the basin of boiling water, it was so hot that he immediately popped back up as soon as he knelt down.
“Mum, are you all right.”
Chu Xiaoxiao cried in anxiety and rushed up to help her mother up.
I tugged Richard Jiang by the collar and lifted him off the ground, pointing at his nose and cursing, “You’re really f*cking crazy, aren’t you?! You want to get back at me?!”
“I… I hit it by accident ……”
Before I finished my sentence, I punched him in the stomach.
“That punch was a warning, you have a lot of heart, but I’m warning you, if I see you playing mind games one more time, I’m going to punch you in the face.”
Kai Jiang’s face twisted and his mouth opened and he threw up.
If I had used my full strength, I could have punched him through the stomach from this distance.
When he had almost vomited, I grabbed him by the collar, pulled him up again and punched him a second time in the stomach.
“This punch is also a warning. You’re very vindictive, huh? Once I get you, you want to get back at me? You have the face to retaliate against me? If there’s another time, I’ll just get you killed, so you’ll know what real revenge is.”
Jiang Kai was already dazed, the punch had made him unable to straighten up, covering his stomach and moaning in pain, his mouth desperately vomiting bile.
It definitely didn’t feel good, and two punches had left his arms and legs weak and immobile.
“I …… know it’s wrong …… ……”
Richard Jiang said in a muffled voice, stammering as if he was about to die.
I know very well how uncomfortable these two punches are, I’ve had them countless times in the army, even for a regular training army, it’s not easy to resist these two punches, let alone an ordinary person like Jiang Kai who is skinny and short.
I was already being merciful, otherwise I would have punched him right in the balls and cut him off completely.
