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Chapter 71 An unfortunate person spends his life healing his childhood

"My parents divorced when I was seven years old. I was very good before I was seven years old."

Zhong Bai and Lu Qiaochuan were stunned after hearing this.

They suddenly discovered that they had never really understood Ren Yifan.

Li Banxia poured two glasses of wine, clinked the glasses with Ren Yifan, and drank them all in one gulp.

Lu Qiaochuan realized that Li Banxia knew about this and asked Li Banxia: "You know? Why don't you tell me and Zhong Bai?"

Li Banxia shook his head, drank the wine in the glass, and then said: "You didn't ask, and this belongs to Ren Yifan's privacy, I shouldn't have said it."

At this time, Ren Yifan had removed his usual laughing and joking mask, leaving only numbness and sadness on his face.

He poured a glass of wine and continued: "I have a younger brother and a younger sister, one is seven years old and the other is nine years old. My brother's surname is Ren."

Ren Yifan paused for a moment before continuing: "My sister's surname is Feng..."

Zhong Bai and Lu Qiaochuan looked at Ren Yifan with distressed eyes and said no more.

After a moment of silence, Ren Yifan continued: "Have you ever seen Guanqian Street at twelve o'clock on New Year's Eve?"

After speaking, he smiled and said, "Oh, Mr. Li has seen me. When he knew about my situation, he sat there with me all night and then took me home."

Then Ren Yifan fell into memories and said with blurred eyes: "During the day on New Year's Eve, the streets are very lively. Adults take their children to buy New Year's goods, as well as ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening."

"But at twelve o'clock in the evening, there was no one on the street. Even the shops that were superficially open 24 hours a day were closed. Only the street lights were still on. They stood there in groups and laughed at you. The loneliness, one lamp after another, year after year.”

"It's very ironic! At the moment when every family in this city is reunited, it is the time when this city is the emptiest."

Ren Yifan laughed at himself a few times, then picked up the wine glass and started drinking.

Li Banxia stopped and said, "Okay, stop drinking."

With tears in his eyes, Ren Yifan smiled and shook his head at Li Banxia, ​​pushed his hand away, then lowered his head and said, "Ask me why I know."

Lu Qiaochuan looked at Ren Yifan who was so sad in front of him, his voice was slightly choked and he asked, "Why?"

"After my parents got divorced, they seemed to really not want to see each other, so one lived in the west of the city and the other lived in the east of the city! Every year before [-] o'clock on New Year's Eve, I would spend time at my father's house. After [-] o'clock, I would spend the night at my father's house. My uncle will drag me to my mother’s house!”

"So I traveled across the city to coordinate the reunion of two families at the moment when every Chinese family gets together."

"But in fact, these two families can be reunited without me..."

After Lu Qiaochuan heard this, he drank a glass of wine in annoyance and was a little angry at himself for not knowing it until now.

Ren Yifan continued to say in a calm tone: "When I was seven years old, my parents divorced, and I married my father. Soon my father remarried. On the day of the wedding, it was my aunt who kept looking at me. She stopped me in the kitchen. They didn’t let me go to the lobby because they were afraid that I would cry and make a scene in the lobby. From the beginning to the end of the wedding, I was locked in the kitchen and never came out."

Ren Yifan shook his head and said bitterly: "Why bother? In fact, I didn't want to make trouble at all at that time. I just wanted to see the bride. What does she look like?"

"I was very obedient when I was young..."

After listening to Ren Yifan's words, Lu Qiaochuan held back his tears and shouted: "Boss, please give me three more bottles of beer, and then leave after finishing it!"

Li Banxia looked at Ren Yifan in front of him.

I am reminded of the words of the Austrian psychologist, Alfred Adler.

Lucky people spend their entire lives being healed by childhood; unfortunate people spend their entire lives being healed by childhood.

……

They didn't drink for long before they left.

Ren Yifan originally planned to take a taxi home, but Li Banxia stopped him: "I'll see you off, Mr. Ren."

Looking at Ren Yifan who wanted to refuse, Li Banxia continued: "Don't worry, I'll be completely drunk now, and you also know that my family won't really have the New Year's Eve dinner until you come back after twelve o'clock."

Looking at Li Banxia in front of him, Ren Yifan smiled slightly: "No, you should go home early. I'm not worried about my godmother being left alone at home."

He doesn't seem that unfortunate.

Li Banxia couldn't talk to Ren Yifan, so she could only look at his leaving figure and fell into deep thought.

……

After twelve o'clock on New Year's Eve.

Ren Yifan took his uncle's car and headed to his mother's house.

On the way, I kept thinking about my last conversation with my father.

At the dinner table, Ren Yifan used a simple and rude way to stop his brother's unreasonable behavior of asking his uncle to drive for several hours to get him scallops on New Year's Eve.

Then he was called aside by his father.

The father spoke in a reproachful tone: "What are you doing during the Chinese New Year?! Can you give me some tutoring!"

Ren Yifan sarcastically said: "Who do you think didn't have a tutor just now?"

These words made his father stunned, and then he defended himself: "He is still a child, he is only seven years old." Ren Yifan became impatient: "I'll tell you again, children understand everything. When I was seven years old, is that so?!"

The father was speechless.

Then Ren Yifan said angrily: "He is arrogant and proud, knowing that adults will pamper him. He rolls around all over the place. This is the lack of tutoring! Didn't you ask me to communicate with him more?! If I were his brother , I have taught him this way a long time ago!”

Ren Yifan's words made the father feel ashamed.

Then he became angry and said: "After the new year, you can stay at your mother or godmother's house for a while."

These words were like a knife, piercing into Ren Yifan's heart. He looked at his father in front of him with disbelief!
But his father ignored him and said to himself: "Originally, I thought, I haven't seen you for a long time and wanted you to spend more time with your family."

After letting out a long sigh, he then sighed: "It seems there is no need."

"It wasn't necessary 11 years ago."

There is no more grief than death, no more sorrow than silence.

Afterwards, Ren Yifan turned around and put on his coat and said while putting it on: "But I will still leave at twelve o'clock. I don't want to ruin another family's New Year's Eve because of my existence..."

……

After regaining consciousness, Ren Yifan was in a depressed mood and said to the uncle driving in front of him: "Uncle, thank you for your hard work. I torture you at this time every year."

The uncle drove the car and comforted him: "It's okay. Anyway, I'm allergic to alcohol and I can't drink."

"My driver's license should be issued in the next two days. I can just do it myself by this time next year."

The uncle sighed deeply and said nothing.

He actually felt sorry for Ren Yifan, but he couldn't say anything.

At this time, Ren Yifan's phone rang.

Ren Yifan looked at the call from Li Banxia, ​​calmed down his emotions, forced a smile and said: "Hey! Happy New Year!"

"Okay, what are you pretending to be like with me?"

Ren Yifan could feel Li Banxia's eyes rolling through the phone.

"It's almost ten past twelve now. Where have you been?"

Then Ren Yifan asked his uncle and replied, "I'm on Tangshan Road."

"Stop the car! I saw your car!"

Upon hearing this, Ren Yifan immediately asked his uncle to park the car, then got out of the car and started to watch.

"Where are you? Why didn't I see you?"

On the phone, I just heard Li Banxia say "Light the fire!"

Then Ren Yifan saw someone setting off fireworks in an open space not far away.

Ren Yifan looked at the fireworks blooming not far away on the other end of the phone and couldn't help being stunned.

I wanted to force a smile, but the tears I had been holding back could no longer be held back at this moment...

Among all the lights in the house, one is your own.

With the help of fireworks, Ren Yifan could clearly see the four people, Zhong Bai, Lu Qiaochuan, Li Banxia, ​​and Liu Shuping.

Not far away, Li Banxia waved to Ren Yifan and asked on his mobile phone: "Can Ren Yifan see it?"

"I saw it!"

Ren Yifan burst into tears.

"Happy New Year, Mr. Ren!"

"Happy New Year, Ren Yifan!"

"Happy New Year, Mr. Ren!"

Li Banxia, ​​Zhong Bai, and Lu Qiaochuan shouted from afar!

Ren Yifan couldn't bear it anymore and ran towards several people. Then he hugged Liu Shuping tightly and cried, "You guys are too much!"

Seeing Ren Yifan crying like a child in front of her, Liu Shuping felt so distressed that she patted Ren Yifan's back and comforted her softly.

As for Li Banxia and the others, this time they did not make fun of Ren Yifan, who never cried.

Let Ren Yifan vent his long-suppressed sadness.

……

I didn't have a home before, but what did it matter, now I have a home and a family. ——Ren Yifan
(End of this chapter)