Faced with my probing questions, Fang Wenxuan fell silent.
She held the glass porcelain cup in both hands, clasping it tightly with her long white fingers.
Frowning, hesitant.
Su Tongyuan urged: "Mom, if you have any grievances, you can tell me. Now is the best time."
"What happened back then, why did you leave my dad? Not only Ning Zi wants to know the truth, but I also want to know."
"Is there any difference between telling us now and telling us after leaving the Chen family? I don't understand."
Su Tongyuan complained softly: "With Granny Diao and Fanyin protecting us, there is no need for you to be afraid of Chen Xuanjun anymore."
Fang Wenxuan said angrily: "Shut up, if everything is as simple as you think, how can there be any debate about luck in China?"
"I don't say it because the time has not come yet."
"After so many years of forbearance, I cannot fall short at the last moment, and I will never allow any mistakes to occur."
Speaking of this, she looked at me seriously and said with a sad face: "Ningzi, my mother can't completely confess to you the ins and outs of the whole thing at this moment. But I can tell you the real reason why I left Taoshan Village and your father."
"is this okay?"
She bit her lower lip in prayer and said: "I am pregnant in ten months. You are a piece of flesh that has fallen from my body. Mom will not lie to anyone if she lies to you."
My heart ached, as if someone had touched a soft spot, and my impetuous mood became calmer and I said, "Say."
Fang Wenxuan brushed the scattered black hair around her ears and breathed out quietly: "If I don't leave, your dad will die."
"What?" Su Tongyuan and I looked at each other, and we both saw shock in each other's eyes and disbelief on our faces.
Fang Wenxuan continued: "You have been with Lingxi for so long, you should know the theory of fate and luck."
"I, I used to be a true phoenix with the destiny to dominate the two battles of luck."
"Rare in the world, wealth is extremely high."
"Your dad is just an ordinary man who is extremely ordinary. His fate cannot hold me back, but he will be counterattacked by my fate."
"To put it simply, after we have been together for a long time, your father's health is getting worse day by day, and he is often bedridden."
"You were still young at that time, so you may not be able to remember these things."
Su Tongyuan breathed quickly and said, "I, I remember."
"I'm three years older than Ningzi, and I remember a lot of things from the past."
"Nine years old. On my ninth birthday, according to village custom, my family would give me a ten-year-old banquet."
"Many guests came, as well as relatives and friends from the village who helped."
"Grandma was making Chinese medicine for Dad in the kitchen. I accidentally knocked it over and you slapped me in the face in front of all the guests."
"That day, I hid beside the haystack in the backyard and cried for a long time."
"From that day on, every time I entered the kitchen, I would take a look at the coal stove, for fear that medicine was still being cooked there."
Fang Wenxuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You girl are so petty, you only remember the time I beat you."
"I made so many floral skirts and little sweaters for you when you were a kid, why don't you remember them?"
Su Tongyuan blushed and said, "There were so many people that day, so children also want to save face."
"Besides, grandma told me later that the bowl of soup was very precious and cost the family a lot of money."
"My dad said he couldn't sit up without taking medicine and he was always weak."
After saying that, she turned to me and asked: "Ning Zi, have you remembered?"
To be honest, I have no memory at all of Su Tongyuan being beaten on her ninth birthday. But I seem to have some memory of the fact that my father was in poor health and was often bedridden.
Well, there is an old Chinese medicine doctor in the village who is invited home by my grandma every three days.
To put it nicely, he is an old Chinese medicine doctor, but in fact he is just a barefoot doctor who has traveled around the world and learned a little bit about medical skills.
I am playful by nature and always like to steal the bamboo baskets brought by the old Chinese medicine doctor, thinking there is some treasure inside.
Until Fang Wenxuan left the Su family, and in the next two years, the old Chinese medicine doctor still came to my house for consultation from time to time, helping my dad take his pulse and so on.
