Today Should Be Preferred

She believed in Shu Minghai so surely, thinking that after the burial was finished, and after sending Tinglan to college, she would definitely find out the truth and restore Shu Minghai's innocence.

Tinglan always curled up in a corner, looking at her mother instinctively with her eyes open, hoping that her mother would tell her that all this was just a dream.

Her mobile phone rang many times from morning to afternoon. Her ears seemed to be deaf, and she couldn't hear the phone ringing until the phone ran out of power and turned off automatically.

That was a call from Zhuo Yu'an.

He fell asleep unknowingly after staying up all night that morning, and fell asleep. When she woke up, Tinglan next to her was gone.

That day, he made countless calls to her, but she didn't answer them. There is nowhere to say what I want to say to her, I can only edit a long text message and send it to her.

In the text message, it was his sincere affection, and it was he who held a hot heart in front of her.

After sending that message, he stayed up all night, tense and waiting for her response. However, the phone is quiet, and there is not even a single advertisement message.

In the past two nights, his heart went up and down, from full expectation to anxiety to now a little bit cold, he thought, maybe this is her answer, in the past three years, she has never seen him.

But not reconciled, not giving up, on the second and third day, he still insisted on calling her. Sometimes no one answered, sometimes it was turned off, she always ignored him.

Zhuo Yuan was also stubborn, not giving up without hearing her refusal. So I kept playing until the third day when she finally picked it up.

Suddenly hearing her voice, he trembled in his heart, a little bitter, and forced himself to calm down and greeted him.

: "Ting Lan, I am Zhuo Yuan."

He simply greeted him on the phone and even prepared to be rejected. But he didn't expect that Tinglan on the phone would scold him so much and said so many ugly things.

He is such a proud man. He has been the proud son of heaven since he was a child. He was boasted and coaxed to grow up. He has never been scolded like this before? Still the one who puts himself on the cusp of heart. At that moment, he was not only self-doubt, not only as simple as frustration, but also a kind of unspeakable pain. It was the heartbreak of a fiery heart being stomped on the ground. He could even hear everywhere in his body. The sound of breaking into pieces.

He hung up the phone, locked himself in the room for two days, and frightened the babysitter. He asked someone to pry open the door before entering. The boy's cheeks were sunken in, and his eyes were full of bloodshot eyes.

At that time, the atmosphere in Zhuo's family was also dull. The person involved in Zhuo Hong's investigation committed suicide.

Except for the nanny, no one at home found something wrong with Zhuo Yu'an. He didn't wait for the college entrance examination results in Qining, and even returned to Beijing without saying hello to anyone. When his family found out, he had already applied for a foreign university and left China before the start of school.

Even if he recalled that call in a foreign country years later, he would still be cold all over.

And he didn't know that Tinglan was not directed at him by that call. It's just that he happened to hit it at the darkest moment in her life.

At that moment, Tinglan had just learned that he and his mother had lived in such a lie for 18 years. At that moment, it was when mother hysterically flushed father's ashes into the toilet.

At that moment, when she could not find an outlet for her emotions, Zhuo Yuan called. Ting Lan thought of the scene of him standing with Wen Jian and thought of him as a father. The faces of the three of them were on her. Intertwined with each other in front of her eyes, she tried her best to scold him as much as she could in her life.

In fact, she just found a catharsis, she was unconscious, she didn't know what bad words she cursed. After scolding, after the phone was hung up, she finally cried and cried.

After crying, the mother and daughter never cried again, and even did not care about Shu Minghai's mourning hall.

These 18 years of life are like a dream. The mother and daughter just want to forget everything in Qining and start a new life.

Fortunately, the college entrance examination results came out very quickly, and Tinglan was admitted with a score far higher than Senzhou University. On the day the employment notice was received, Zhang He packed all his luggage and left the city of Qining with Dinglan overnight.

The only one to see off was Cheng Chen. Cheng Chen only learned of her father's death later, only knowing that it was suddenly and not the reason, because Shu Minghai killed the news because the news was blocked by their unit, and no one knew it.

Cheng Chen kept crying at the train station. She didn't know why she felt sad and wanted to cry when she saw Tinglan.

"Are you not coming back anymore?" she asked.

"Yeah." Ting Lan nodded calmly and never returned.

"Don't you use your phone number anymore?"

"No."

"Then QQ needs to be used, and I will find you on it." Cheng Chen didn't want to lose her friend, this was her only requirement of Tinglan.

"good."

After Tinglan and her mother arrived in Senzhou, where they were not familiar with each other, they were busy finding a place to live, and were busy adapting. They hadn't been on QQ for a long time, let alone contacted anyone.

She and her mother depended on each other in Senzhou, but they rarely communicated, as if they had lost their language skills. They stayed quietly in a small rental room near the school while they were waiting for the beginning of school. Even if you leave that familiar environment, you still can't really come out, and people are always in a trance.

They didn't really come back to life until Tinglan started school and her mother sent her to the school to report.

In the school’s small supermarket, her mother prepared all the daily necessities for her one by one, and then sent her to the dormitory, helped her arrange the things, level the bed, and even put a packet of snacks on each of her roommates’ beds.

She stood by the bed, watching her mother's thin body rushing in and out, feeling sad, but she couldn't say a word.

After her mother helped her tidy up and leave, she said to her: "Study well in school and don't care about anything else. Also have a good relationship with your roommates. For the past four years, this dormitory is your home."

Ting Lan nodded: "Mom, you have to take care of yourself outside."

"I know. Mom will also work hard. After you graduate, Mom will help you buy a house in Senzhou."

Tinglan doesn't want a house, just wants to live with her mother forever.

They both acted strong in front of each other, and both acted as if they had forgotten everything in Qining, but after sending her mother out of campus, she cried all the way back to the dormitory.

Ever since I was young, I have never separated from my mother. Apart from reluctance, there are boundless worries in my heart. Worried about how well my mother is living outside alone.