After dinner and a simple shower, Lu Chenxu came to the study room on the first floor.
He knew that his father had a habit of reading in the study for an hour before going to bed. Because he had something on his mind, he walked in without opening the door.
Father Lu saw him hurriedly stuffing the photo in his hand into the book.
Then he pretended to be calm and asked: "It's so late, Chen Xu, what's the matter?"
Lu Chenxu looked at the book in his father's hand suspiciously and reached out to grab it.
But he was stopped by Father Lu.
He stared into Father Lu's eyes and said in a calm voice, "I met Li Qiuhe in Daoxiang Village this time."
Sure enough, Father Lu's face showed a trace of panic: "She, she -"
"Who is she?" Lu Chenxu asked.
He didn't believe everything Li Qiuhe said. She must indeed be terminally ill, but just because of this father, he gave her such an expensive diamond ring as a souvenir. Moreover, the diamond ring was exactly the same as the one given to his mother. This made no sense at all!
"She, she is a classmate of mine in high school." Father Lu felt guilty and did not dare to look at his son's face.
Lu Chenxu silently took out the diamond ring and placed it in front of Father Lu: "Xiao Su asked me to return this to you. Dad, you should know who Xiao Su is!"
Father Lu looked shocked: "You, you know everything?"
"I don't know anything, Dad, I want to hear what you have to say." After saying that, he moved a chair and sat down in front of his father.
Seeing that there was nothing he could hide from his son, Father Lu sighed helplessly and took out the photo he had just hidden in the book.
"She, she is my first love."
"At that time, we were both studying in Huaze County No. 1 Middle School. She was recognized as the campus beauty by the school. She was good at studying and a good person. Many boys secretly liked her behind her back."
"During the summer vacation of my sophomore year in high school, I went to my grandmother's house in Daoxiang Village. She was accidentally bitten on the leg by a water snake while she was washing clothes by the river. I happened to pass by and helped her suck out the poisonous blood from the wound in time, and then sent her to the hospital in the town.
.”
"Then, we gradually became familiar with each other, and later we became lovers." Father Lu raised his head and stared at Van Gogh's "Harvest Season" on the wall opposite the desk, as if he was caught in some kind of beauty.
memories.
Lu Chenxu had never seen such an expression on his father's face before. It looked like happiness, but also a little bitter.
"We made an appointment to enter the best university in the country, work hard to live, go abroad, and go to Van Gogh's hometown. We are full of fantasies about our future life."
"However, in her senior year of high school, her only brother got into a fight with others and was accidentally injured. He was unconscious after being sent to the hospital. Her mother fainted immediately after hearing the news. When she woke up, her brain became a little abnormal.
Already."
"The family's life suddenly became chaotic. At that time, rural people had little financial resources. His brother faced huge medical expenses every day. The other party also accused her brother of doing it first."
"Under such circumstances, she performed poorly in the college entrance examination. Then she broke up with me and went home to get married. Because the other party gave her family a lot of gifts and promised to help find a doctor to treat her brother."
"Then I went to college in Yucheng. I met your mother in my junior year and never asked about her again. When your mother and I were preparing to get married, we went to Daoxiang Village. It was then that I heard
Said, her brother has passed away and she has given birth to a son."
"Later, until you were ten years old, when our factory started to make money, one time, I went to that place to discuss business with someone, and I met her being bullied by five or six men. I was so angry that I fought with those people
She got up and threatened to call the police, so she was saved."
A trace of sadness and anger appeared on Father Lu's face, as if he didn't want to recall that past event.