Summer Lemon Hearts

Chapter 24 Little Anning ran away from home (2)
"My stepmother is 10 years younger than my father. She married my father after my mother died of illness. Probably because of the age gap, so my father has been doting on her for several years, but my stepmother has been She kept her sense of proportion and never overstepped. She also treated me as her own. My relatives said that my stepmother was vicious, but I could see that she was sincerely treating me well!"

"Then what's going on with Xiao An Ning?" I frowned, "The family affairs of the wealthy family are really too complicated."

"Before my stepmother married my father, there was a very loving lover. It is said that they were college classmates and it was love at first sight. The stepmother was impressed by the boy's talent and would not marry unless he was the only one. But people in the stepmother's family disagreed because of their family status. They were together. After graduating from university, they were together desperately. They thought they could live an ordinary and happy life from now on, but their fate was unpredictable. Maybe God was jealous of their love. A few days before the two of them decided to get the certificate, they encountered a car accident. The boy was sent to the hospital and died of serious injuries. The stepmother passed out in the hospital, but found that she was pregnant with the boy's flesh and blood. The stepmother couldn't bear to destroy the last flesh and blood of her lover, but her family But she was not allowed to keep this child under the pretext that she was unmarried, which would damage her reputation. The stepmother forced her to die, and the family was forced to agree to her keeping this child, but put forward the condition that she marry my father . Otherwise, they will do whatever it takes to kill the kid."

He Tu closed his eyes and let out a long sigh. He didn't know whether he was lamenting the impermanence of fate, or sighing for what happened to his stepmother.

"The stepmother had no choice but to agree to the family's request, but insisted not to keep the child in her family. She quietly returned to the boy's hometown on the grounds of concealing her pregnancy. But the boy's parents thought it was The stepmother killed her son and insisted on refusing to recognize the child in her womb. The stepmother had no choice but to give birth to the child quietly and sent him to the orphanage without telling the family..."

At this point, Hetu paused, and smiled bitterly: "You know what happened later. The stepmother finally married my father under the pressure of the family, and then she secretly funded the orphanage without my father's knowledge. And as a volunteer She came to the orphanage to accompany her children regularly. Although she is a strange aunt, but being able to watch her children grow up day by day, I think it is also a kind of comfort for the stepmother!"

"That's for sure, poor parents in the world..." I was a little moved and sighed, "Mothers always love their children. Of course, those who are not even worthy of being parents are another matter! But... Wait, what did you just say? In the name of being a volunteer, you regularly come to the orphanage to accompany Xiao An Ning? Could it be..."

A figure flashed quickly in my mind, and I suddenly remembered the weird situation when Hetu met Aunt Sun that day.

"Is your stepmother Aunt Sun?"

Hetu looked at me with contempt in the eyes of "You idiot, you have finally realized it", and said with a mocking smile: "Our squad leader is indeed extremely smart, and you have guessed such complicated things. "

I ignored He Tu's ridicule, and just sighed softly: "No wonder Auntie Sun is so kind to Xiao An Ning!"

No wonder every time she looked at Xiao An Ning, her eyes were so complicated.I didn't know the meaning of that look before, but now I understand that it contains self-blame, guilt and deep love.

In the past, it was always strange that she obviously liked Xiao An Ning, and she expressed her intention to adopt him several times, but she gave up halfway every time.It is only now that I understand how contradictory, entangled, and complicated her mood was at that time.

"Actually, it's not easy for Aunt Sun..."

I originally hated the kind of parents who abandoned their flesh and blood at will, and thought they were the most hateful people in the world, but now, I can't say a word about Aunt Sun!
As a human being, there are always times when we can’t do anything.

Aunt Sun didn't want her and her lover's only child to become a tool of the family like herself, so she would rather send the child to an orphanage than let her stay in her family.

Although I didn't see it with my own eyes, I can almost imagine the pain and sadness in her heart at that time. It must be as painful as parting with one's flesh and blood.

That kind of skin-cutting pain can never be experienced without personal experience.

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"I know." Hetu lowered his head, his complexion a bit complicated, "That's why I'm so hesitant and entangled. My father doesn't know about his stepmother, he loves her wholeheartedly and dotes on her. I can see that, father I am very concerned about my stepmother. I don’t know how he will react if he finds out about this? So I have always been conflicted. I think my stepmother should not hide this from my father. But sometimes I feel that if she doesn’t say yes That's right. Otherwise, with my father's violent temper, I'm afraid he would have been furious. To be honest, although Aunt Sun is not my biological mother, she has devoted herself to me, to my father, and to this family all these years. Yes. My family is even happier than normal families! Ye Suisui, tell me, should I tell my father about this?"

Hetu threw me a difficult problem that he couldn't choose, and I felt a headache instantly.

"Do you hate her?" I carefully considered the words, "No, should I say you hate her?"

"Speaking of my conscience, she is very good to me. I often think that my biological mother is nothing more than that! So from my own perspective, I can't find any reason to hate her. Let alone hate her!" He Tu shook his head, and replied very firmly, "However, I always feel that it is wrong to lie to my father. I am afraid that if this matter is kept hidden like this, it will be like a ticking time bomb. Once it explodes one day, it will It would lead to unimaginable consequences! But I was afraid that if I said it rashly now, my father would anger Aunt Sun and Xiao Aning. So I hesitated, and I didn't know what to do. Until the day you told me, Xiao Anning I might be adopted or even go abroad to settle down. I panicked all of a sudden. Although the time we got together was very short, to be honest, I couldn’t bear to part with Xiao An Ning. I really liked him. I was even more afraid that after Aunt Sun found out about this, I won't be able to withstand this blow..."

"That's why you hang up my phone inexplicably and come to the orphanage inexplicably?" I suddenly realized, and remembered Hetu's strange behavior before.

"I didn't expect to meet Aunt Sun in the orphanage." Hetu nodded, with a bitter smile on the corner of his mouth, "I still remember the complicated expression on Aunt Sun's face when she saw me. I I know she is afraid, she is afraid that I will find out the truth about the past, and that I will tell my father about it. She is afraid of losing Xiao An Ning, and also our family. But she doesn't know that she will soon lose her own son..."

"Wait..." I seemed to have caught something from Hetu's words, but I couldn't grasp the clue all of a sudden, "Could it be..."

I suddenly remembered that when Aunt Sun left in a hurry the day before yesterday, I didn't have time to tell her that Xiao Aning was about to be adopted.So how did Aunt Sun get the news today and go directly to the orphanage to find Xiao An Ning?
I absolutely do not believe that Auntie Sun would rashly tell Xiao Aning the truth after forbearance for so many years.If she wanted to do this, I'm afraid she would have done so long ago.

So, who had told her this?
There are only a handful of people who know about it, not me, and it's unlikely to be the dean's mother.

Is it...

An answer jumped out in my mind, and I looked up at Hetu, a little surprised and a little unbelievable.

"Could it be that you told Aunt Sun about Xiao Aning's adoption?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect things to turn out like this..." Hetu gave me a guilty look, with a slightly annoyed expression on his face.

"I struggled at home for a whole day. I couldn't make up my mind whether to tell Aunt Sun about this. I even thought selfishly whether I should simply let the fact that Xiao Anning was adopted by that foreign friend become a fact. This way I don't have to worry about it." Should I tell my father or not, and I don’t have to worry that the peace of our family will be broken. After dinner last night, I went to her room to find her, and found her looking at Xiao An Ning’s photo and remembering something. You didn’t see Her expression at that time was a kind of joy and happiness from the heart. I suddenly understood that Aunt Sun who lost Xiao An Ning would never be happy. In a sense, Xiao An Ning is her love The sustenance and comfort of the past. If she really loses Xiao An Ning, she will probably live in self-blame and guilt for the rest of her life. That will not only destroy her, but also our family. So at that moment, I finally made up my mind Determined. I didn't tell her that I knew about it. I just told her lightly as a bystander that a child named Xiao An Ning in the orphanage was about to be adopted. As expected, her expression changed drastically. Then, it happened this morning This matter of..."

(End of this chapter)