The Cliff of Eternal Sun

Chapter 32 The Complete Mom

It was already eight o'clock when Aunt Lin's daughter Shen Miao arrived at the hospital. She came in a hurry, but she still looked very smart and capable in a neat shirt and trousers. Mu and Aunt Lin, her expressions didn't fluctuate much, she nodded to Wei Mu and said, "Hello."

Aunt Lin was half-sitting against the head of the bed, and she was not very happy to see her daughter coming. Shen Miao called "Mom", and she said "um", and then the two of them seemed to have nothing to say, and the atmosphere in the ward changed The time is awkward.

Wei Mu excused himself to fetch water, and came out of the ward with a kettle, leaving room for the mother and daughter.

After fetching water, he waited at the water dispenser for another ten minutes, thinking that the time should be almost up, and he could leave and go back to the store after he went back to put down the water. Before he could put it on the doorknob, he heard Shen Miao's voice from inside.

Different from the previous calmness, she sounded a little emotional at this time, and said loudly: "Why can't I just talk to you? How many times have I persuaded you before, but you didn't listen, insisted on opening that store, insisted on going Open, now that it has been driven to the hospital, I feel at ease, right?"

Wei Mu didn't hear Aunt Lin's words, and Shen Miao seemed to take a deep breath: "You have a pension, and I will never lack you for anything you want, why can't you just stay at home or go to the square Find other old ladies on the Internet to play, go on a trip, do whatever you want, why can’t you close that shop!”

Aunt Lin finally said, "I don't want anything, and I don't want to play."

"Yes! Yes! I want to open that store, but have you ever thought about it?" Shen Miao shouted out of control, "My brother has been lost for more than 20 years! He might have died long ago!"

Wei Mu was about to turn around and go to wait somewhere else, but when he heard her shout, he suddenly stopped in his tracks, his heart vibrated violently as if being hammered by something, the picture of the lost child stuck on the glass The photos, the weird stuff on sale in the store, the unworn men's clothes in your closet, everything is connected to the same truth.

"How can you say that about your brother!" Aunt Lin's voice suddenly became sharp, "As long as I live, I will look for him!"

"What about me!" Shen Miao also screamed, as if using all the strength in her body, "You open a store in the place where he lost it, and fill the store with things he liked when he was a child, and buy everything in the closet. Give him clothes, sweat him every day..."

Her voice was low and choked, as if she was crying blood and asked: "Then what about me, Mom, am I not your child?"

Am I not your child...

Wei Mu staggered and leaned against the wall behind him as if he had been hit with a heavy stick. Shen Miao's words seemed to be still echoing in his ears, and it sounded like another voice was saying:

"Sometimes I can't help but wonder, am I really your child?"

That sounded like his own voice, did he tell Liang Yan?How could he say such things to Liang Yan?

Before Wei Mu could figure it out, the door of the ward was pulled open from the inside, Shen Miao came out, without looking at Wei Mu next to him, wiped the tears on his face with one hand and walked quickly towards the end of the corridor go.

Wei Mu stood at the door and looked into the room, Aunt Lin also stared at the door in a daze, blinked, and tears fell onto the bedding.She opened her mouth, her voice was unreasonably hoarse, and she said to Wei Mu, "help me go and see her."

Shen Miao was sitting on a bench at the corner of the corridor, with her elbows resting on her legs and her face buried in her palms.

Wei Mu sat down next to her, she didn't raise her face, but she seemed to know who was coming, and said in a hoarse voice, "You must think I'm very ignorant, right?"

Her voice was muffled by her palms, and she seemed sulking, but she still couldn't stop her sobs: "Sometimes I also feel the same way, Shen Miao, why are you so selfish, why can't you understand your parents? But, I have Sometimes I can't help but think..."

Her voice trembled more and more: "If only I had never had a brother."

After saying this, she seemed to have finally let go of some burden, and her shoulders slumped.After a long time, she rubbed her face twice heavily, put down her hands and sat up straight, staring at the floor tiles in front of them with red eyes.

"I was very young when he was lost, but as long as I can remember, I know that I have an older brother and how much he occupies in my life. Until I was six or seven years old, my parents still They threw me to my grandparents on weekends and holidays, and they went out to various provinces to look for them, or they just squatted in front of the police station, for so many years, and they haven’t let go until now.”

"I still remember that one weekend, after I begged for a long time, my mother didn't go out to find my brother, but took me to the amusement park. I was so happy that day. I felt that I had never been so happy in my life. But halfway on the way, she saw a boy who looked a bit like my brother. She left me and chased after him. I was crying and chasing after her. There were too many people in the amusement park, and I lost it after a few steps. I stood there with strangers in my eyes, and I could only cry, with the ice cream in my hand I don’t know how to let go, and I’m completely transformed, and I’ll never forget that feeling in my life.”

He and Shen Miao were actually strangers, but sitting in the dark corridor at this moment, she seemed to have taken off her adult clothes, and became the crying little girl holding an ice cream and unable to find her mother.

"After my father passed away a few years ago, I took her to live with me, and wanted to spend more time with her, but she insisted on opening such a store. No matter what I said, I begged her softly and sent Even if she has a good temper, she doesn't listen, she just says she doesn't need my money, but she clearly knows that it's not about money at all. A teacher, can you believe it, she even asks someone to tell a fortune, just to ask my brother How tall is he, so that she can prepare clothes for him in advance, so that he doesn't have to change when he comes back, is it ridiculous?"

She seemed to really find it very ridiculous, and smiled with the corners of her mouth pulled, but the smile was very short-lived and couldn't stay on her face for too long.

Wei Mu just listened quietly, when she suddenly looked over and asked, "Is she treating you well?"

Wei Mu nodded: "I have nowhere to go, Aunt Lin took me in."

"She is such a person, she is very kind to everyone." She seemed to sigh, "Including me of course, she has not done anything wrong to me all these years, but I am just greedy, I want a complete mother."

She asked Wei Mu: "Did I do something wrong?"

Wei Mu shook his head and said, "No."

What's wrong with a child who wants his mother's complete love?He couldn't blame Shen Miao, but he couldn't blame Aunt Lin either. What's wrong with a mother who lost her child?

The two sat together for a while, and Shen Miao's emotions had almost calmed down. She stood up and said, "I'll go back and have a look."

Wei Mu stood up with her, and the two of them turned the corner, but they were both stunned.

Aunt Lin didn't know how she came here, she was sitting on a row of benches placed at the end of the wall, only a few meters away from where they were talking just now.

Hearing the movement, she raised her head, and the dim light at the end of the corridor hit her face, reflecting the wrinkles very vividly, as if she had aged several years overnight.

She looked at Shen Miao, with tears in her eyes, but the corner of her mouth was slightly smiling, and her voice was very soft: "If you don't open it, then you can open it."

That night, Shen Miao was accompanying her in the hospital, and Wei Mu went back to the shop alone.Before entering the store, he stood outside for a long time, looking up at the photos pasted on the glass. The middle photo showed a little boy whose name was very similar to Shen Miao's, Shen Shu.After reading those photos, he looked at the plaque above his head again. The word "Return to the Garden" seemed to be floating in the night, with each stroke clean and steady, just like Aunt Lin's name he had just learned in the hospital. The name is called Lin Chengyuan.