Later, my younger brother went to the United States to study and did not come home even once a year.
After my brother left, the atmosphere at dinner became increasingly cold at home.
Apart from my father's formulaic greetings, my mother's virtuous smile, and my idiot sister's nonsense, there was only the sound of bowls and chopsticks touching each other.
With a "bang", my sister Zheng Tianxin threw the abalone into the bowl and cried: "I don't want to eat this, I want to eat McDonald's, I want to eat French fries, I don't want to eat this! I don't want to eat this!"
Mother Ouyang Yunyun hurriedly put down her chopsticks and comforted Zheng Tianxin, saying, "Tianxin, you just had McDonald's at noon. Wouldn't it be better to have something else in the evening for a change?"
"No, no, I want to eat McDonald's every meal!" Zheng Tianxin started to dance and make a fuss.
"Tianxin, please eat a few more bites. Wait, I'll ask Lao Luo to go to McDonald's to buy you French fries, okay?"
As soon as he heard that there were French fries, Zheng Tianxin immediately stopped making trouble and took a few bites of rice, showing an innocent smile.
After the storm, my mother breathed a sigh of relief, raised her head and gave her father a virtuous smile.
"Yunyun, you have worked really hard these years, thank you." Zheng Shihua said warmly.
"Shihua, don't say that. I am your wife, and it is my responsibility to take care of Tianxin." Ouyang Yunyun replied.
"Tian Ai, you are getting married soon. Learn more from your mother." Zheng Shihua turned to Zheng Tian Ai and said.
Her father's sudden words made her almost choke on the bowl of tofu.
After taking a few sips of water, she thought about it and held back her words.
To be honest, she doesn't want to imitate her mother or those so-called virtuous people.
Sister Zheng Tianxin is not her mother’s biological daughter, but the daughter of her father’s ex-wife Li Min.
Li Min is her mother's cousin.
Back then, my father defeated so many competitors and married my mother, the only daughter of a Hong Kong shipping magnate.
If not for anything else, it was precisely because when Li Min fell ill, his father never abandoned her.
My mother was so moved by her father's affection that she married him regardless of the cost.
But in her opinion, her father's deep affection is fake, and using his wife to gain power is real.
It can even be said that my father's two marriages were all a conspiracy.
Otherwise, how could he, a poor boy working as a waiter in a teahouse, become a wealthy man in Hong Kong?
Since his father took full control of the Ouyang family's business, he and his mother slept in separate rooms on the grounds of official business.
Over the years, the relationship between the two has been as polite as that of British aristocrats.