Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 196 Photos
On the National Day of [-], Guan Xiaoyun's daughter got married.Guan Xiaoyun greeted Liu Xiaonan and Meng Xiangxiang in advance, and asked Hu Liwen and Qimeng to be bridesmaids for his daughter, raising her daughter's status and supporting her appearance.

Liu Xiaonan and Meng Xiangxiang had to agree of course, and called Hu Liwen and Qimeng to put down all their plans and make sure to come back on time for the National Day.

On the day of the wedding, Liu Xiaonan's family rushed to Dong Xiaojun's house early as the guests who sent off their relatives.Liu Xiaonan accompanied Guan Deyu's third uncle and third aunt, Meng Xiangxiang assisted Guan Xiaoyun with some chores, and Hu Liwen and Qi Meng accompanied Guan Xiaoyun's daughter.

The wedding was held in the hotel, and the workers of the textile factory gathered together again.After the textile factory disintegrated and closed down, everyone was scattered in every corner of the city, each running around for their own lives, and it was rare to see each other in normal times.

Liu Xiaonan was chatting and laughing with everyone, while secretly looking for someone.Finally found it, that person was accompanying Guan Xiaoyun with Meng Xiangxiang.

Looking at it from a distance, his figure has not changed much due to age, and his complexion is not bad. He still loves to talk and laugh like when he was young, and his laughter is still clear and loud.

Thinking about it carefully, it has been 13 years since she left the farm with Wen Tian.Living in the same city, they are like strangers. They have never met or contacted each other in 13 years. It would be unbelievable to say it.

However, there is an invisible bond that connects them closely, and two people do not become strangers just because they are strangers.She was also secretly looking for someone. When the two people's eyes met, they knew each other without saying anything.

Wu Yanli said a few words to Guan Xiaoyun, and then walked towards the door of the hotel.The wedding has already started, the music is echoing in the hall, and all eyes are on the wedding scene.

Liu Xiaonan got up quietly, walked out of the hotel along the edge of the wedding scene.Sure enough, Wu Yanli was waiting for him outside the gate.He walked over and observed her expression, and she greeted him with delighted eyes and a happy expression.

Approaching each other face to face, Liu Xiaonan noticed that in Wu Yanli's still bright eyes, there were crystal tears shining.He asked, "How have you and Wen Tian been doing all these years?"

"Thank you!" Wu Yanli restrained her surging emotions and kept the tears from rolling down her eyes.She said: "Thank you for giving our mother and son a way out. Both are fine. Although Wen Tian can't express it, I know he always remembers you in his heart. He never called my current man father."

Liu Xiaonan said: "I have failed Wen Tian, ​​I should visit him more often."

"You must not go." Wu Yanli stretched out her hand to straighten Liu Xiaonan's tie. She said, "If you show up, the two children will ask me for a father. I can't stand it. By the way, your daughter's name is Liu Xufei, come on." She is in the sixth grade of elementary school, she is very good-looking and beautiful. I will send her to a boarding school so that she can receive the best education, and I want to be worthy of her father."

"It's been hard for you these years. It's not easy. Didn't you bring your daughter here today?"

"I want to bring my daughter here so that you can take a look at it, but I'm afraid that everyone will recognize it and make irresponsible remarks, which will affect you badly. Besides, there are still classes in the cram school. My daughter looks like me, carefully Duanliang also has your appearance, especially his hands and feet, which are slender and long, exactly like yours."

The emotions and longings that have been hidden for many years are churning in Liu Xiaonan's heart.He said: "If you have any photos, let me take a look at the photos."

Wu Yanli hurriedly took out her mobile phone, flipped through it and said, "Look at me, I told you to come out, I just want you to see my daughter's photo."

On Wu Yanli's mobile phone, there are dozens of photos of Liu Xufei in different age groups. She is indeed a beautiful and lovely girl.Liu Xiaonan flipped through the pictures one by one, while Wu Yanli explained to him the time and place of the shooting.Turning to the last page, Liu Xiaonan returned the phone to Wu Yanli.

Wu Yanli said, "Choose a few, and I'll send you the photos."

Liu Xiaonan said, "No need, I've already remembered it."

"Your daughter is so smart. When she was young, she wanted a father from me, and I lied to her that you were working abroad and would not come back until a few years later. Then I got the man I am now, and I told her that this is your father. She didn't believe it, Ask Wen Tian, ​​Wen Tian shook her head, she never asked for a father from me again, and she never talked to my current man. She is still young, and I can handle it. When she grows up, I will ask for a father from me, I don’t know What should I do, I have been worrying."

"It's hard for you! How about this, wait for your daughter to ask you for a father, you tell me first, and I will find a way to solve it."

"Except for my daughter's affairs, I'm living a good life now, so don't worry about missing it. I often tell Xiaoyun that without you, Wentian and I may have nowhere to go."

"Xiaoyun's daughter is married, and my pair of sons and daughters also have partners. We are all in our fifties. Don't follow Xiaoyun's example. You don't want to die when you earn money. Take care of your body and be happy for a day Have a happy day and keep an optimistic and happy attitude.”

"You also have to take care of your health. In the blink of an eye, you will be 50 years old, and you will no longer be a young man. Well, I have been out for too long, so I will go back first."

Wu Yanli shook Liu Xiaonan's hand, walked slowly into the hotel, and stood alone in a secluded corner.The brief reunion, the short-term happiness, is like a glass of strong wine, the more you drink, the more delicious it is, the more you drink it, the more nostalgic it is, and the more you drink it, the more sad it is.

The wedding has reached its climax, warm and enthusiastic, but the joyful atmosphere made her feel sad.If Wen Tian was a healthy child, he should have a partner by now, and he should also prepare for his son's wedding.

Liu Xiaonan stood outside alone, copying the photos on Wu Yanli's phone in his mind one by one.The appearance of her daughter is very similar to Wu Yanli, especially her eyes, which are bright and clear. Is her laughter as clear and sweet as her mother's.

Before seeing his daughter's true appearance, he could selectively ignore the existence of that daughter.Now that he sees the photo of his daughter, there is a specific image in his heart, and there is a constant concern about letting go.

When he walked into the lobby of the hotel, he saw Meng Xiangxiang and Wu Yanli standing there talking.He dodged far away, he felt ashamed of the two women.

Wu Yanli took Meng Xiangxiang's hand and said, "Sister-in-law, I heard from Xiaonan just now that Qiyu Qimeng has a partner."

Meng Xiangxiang said: "Isn't that right? We talked about it when we first went to college, and now the children are all precocious. How is Wentian? After all these years, you don't go back to the farm."

"Wen Tian is still the same. He is 26 years old, and his intelligence is still at the level of a child, and his height and weight have not grown much. I miss everyone very much, and I want to go back and have a look, but I can't get away. There are too many messy things."

"You are very strong and optimistic. I think you look good and you haven't aged much. Life is not easy, and it is also important to maintain a healthy attitude."

"Sister-in-law, it's not that I'm strong, it's that I met a benefactor. In fact, the person I'm most grateful to is you. Xiaonan bought a house for me, arranged everything for me and Wentian, and spent so much money to exchange An ordinary woman has already had a falling out with Xiaonan. It is thanks to the two of you that I am here today, this is a great friendship, and I will never be able to repay it in my life."

Meng Xiangxiang shook Wu Yanli's hand vigorously: "Stop talking about repaying or not. Xiaonan can't see the people closest to her suffer. It was also with his support that I managed to finish college. I don't understand supporting him. Haven't you become a person who doesn't know how to be grateful?"

Back home at night, before going to bed, Meng Xiangxiang said to Liu Xiaonan: "I chatted with Wu Yanli for a long time today. She said that she has a healthy little girl, and the man she introduced to Sister Wang is also very good. A A healthy child is the best comfort for her, and it is much more important than the house you bought her. This can be regarded as God follows people's wishes, and all hardships are rewarded."

Liu Xiaonan said: "You are right, a healthy child is the best blessing from heaven for her."

"You are also amazing. Not only did you save a mother and a disabled child, but you also baptized the hearts of the children."

"I just did what I thought I should do, you don't give rise to that high altitude."

In the summer of [-], Liu Xufei graduated from elementary school with mediocre grades.Wu Yanli drove to pick up her daughter, looked at the report card, and looked at her daughter's cold face, thinking that her daughter was angry at her grades, so she could only comfort her and say, "It doesn't matter if you didn't pass the exam this time. Let's work harder when we get to junior high school."

Liu Xufei looked out of the car window, as if she didn't hear her mother's words.Wu Yanli didn't dare to say anything anymore. As her daughter grew up, she became more and more careful in what she said and did.In a family with such a special structure as her own, the first thing she wanted to protect was not to hurt her daughter's self-esteem.

Back home, in front of the whole family, the 12-year-old girl threw her schoolbag in front of her mother and asked loudly, "Mom, tell me the truth, who is my biological father?"

The most dreaded and most terrifying day finally came.Wu Yanli bent down to pick up her daughter's schoolbag, patted it on the chair aside, and pulled her daughter to sit down, still trying to hide it: "Feifei, why don't you believe what mom says? He is yours." biological father."

Liu Xufei shook her arm, broke free from her mother's arms, pointed to Wu Yanli's man and said, "He is not my biological father, we have different surnames, and you two have not registered marriage. Mom, I have grown up, you Don’t lie to me, okay. I’ve read our family’s household registration book, and brother Wentian and I are not the same father, brother Wentian’s father died a long time ago.”

I can't hide it anymore!Wu Yanli sat on the sofa weakly, looking at her righteous daughter, unable to say a word.Since her daughter asked her for a father for the first time when she was a child, she knew that this day would come sooner or later, but she never figured out how to explain all this to her daughter.

Wen Tian, ​​who was at the side, patted the wheelchair and shouted "ahhh".Liu Xufei knelt down in front of Wentian and asked, "Brother Wentian, what do you want to say? Is everything I said right?"

Wen Tian agreed with an "ahhh", stretched out his left hand to hold Liu Xufei, and shook it vigorously, as if he wanted to express something.

Liu Xufei guessed: "Brother Wentian, what do you mean, your father is not dead?"

Wen Tian agreed loudly, grinning loudly at first, then seemed to think of his "father" again, and burst into tears.Wu Yanli was in a mess, and hurried over to wipe Wentian's snot and tears, and comforted Wentian with kind words.

Liu Xufei stood up, with tears in her bright eyes, she looked at her mother and said, "Mom, Brother Wentian's father is not dead, that means my father is dead, and I am a child without a father."

"Don't talk nonsense." Wu Yanli yelled: "Your father is fine, you are not a child without a father."

Liu Xufei shouted loudly: "Then tell me who he is, why he doesn't come to see me, why he doesn't care about me."

Wu Yanli took her daughter's hand and said comfortingly, "Your father didn't care about you. Our house and your school expenses are all taken care of by your father. Feifei, your father and I have unavoidable difficulties. Waiting for you When I grow up, can I tell you again?"

"I don't care, I want to know now. If you don't tell me who my father is, I won't go to school anymore."

Liu Xufei broke free from Wu Yanli's arms again, ran back to her room, and locked the door.She didn't even eat dinner, and even though grandma, grandpa, and mother took turns persuading her, she just didn't open the door.If she doesn't tell her who her father is, she will never eat or go to school.

In her young heart, there has always been a tall and mighty father who protects her, loves her, and prevents her from being wronged or bullied.However, such a father never appeared by her side.When she was very young, her mother told her that her father was working abroad, she believed it, and she waited for her father to come home.

Later, a man showed up at the house, and Mom asked her to call him Dad.She couldn't call out, she felt that the man was very strange, not like her father.And brother Wentian didn't call him father, brother Wentian had seen his father before.

In the boarding school, many students come from single-parent families, but they all have fathers who often visit them and pick them up, but she does not have a father.When the students asked her, she said that her father was working abroad, he was a big professor, and he could only return to China during the holidays.

At that time, after class, she would often lie on the big iron gate of the school and look out.How she longed for her father to appear at the school gate.

Now that she has graduated from elementary school, she has grown up and is sensible, and her mother can no longer fool her.Since Mom said that Dad was paying for her to attend a boarding school with high fees, then Dad must not be far away, so why couldn't she recognize her?This time, she must see her father.

In the morning of the next day, Liu Xufei still did not open the door, and kept threatening that if he did not see his father, he would never study in the future.Wu Yanli had no choice but to run around in a hurry.Both the parents and the truck driver said that the child was usually spoiled by her, and this time, her biological father might really have to show up.

Wu Yanli had nothing to do, but she still didn't want to involve Liu Xiaonan.She asked her parents to watch Liu Xufei, and went to the clothing store to discuss countermeasures with Guan Xiaoyun.

Guan Xiaoyun said: "Children nowadays are very serious. If you say you can't beat them, you have to coax them into confession. If you speak a little harshly, you will run away from home. There are so many liars in society, and it is easy to be deceived."

Wu Yanli rushed to the room in a hurry: "I came to find you to find a solution, not to listen to your chatter here."

Guan Xiaoyun said: "There is no other way, I can only let Xiaonan come forward. He is not responsible for what he does, the seeds he sows."

"But."

"No but. Meng Xiangxiang is a reasonable person, she will not do anything to Xiaonan."

(End of this chapter)