At the dinner table, the man and son were eating. The maid brought a bowl of broth, opened the lid, grabbed the young master's hand, and desperately poured it into his mouth. The man was stunned and pounced on the maid's neck. The maid blushed and shouted: This hairy child is not your species at all...
For an instant, the man froze there; a few minutes later he asked in a trembling, but unusually agitated voice:
"You say? What did you say?! ”
The man was a small local rich merchant who had been trading in wool and made a lot of money. Since his 10s, he has been in love with a lady from a declining family next door. After achieving fame, he finally married her as he wished.
Unlike other men, he loved deeply before he married; after marrying into the house, he loved deeper. It can be said that in his eyes, except for money, he can only fit his wife.
In the blink of an eye, 5 years have passed, but they have never conceived a child.
The man was anxious about this, but he loved his wife too much, so on the surface the man did not say anything, still spoiled his wife every day, and they also met a very good friend named Durtur.
Durtur came to the house three times a week for dinner, brought flowers to his wife, and invited the couple to watch a play. Watching his wife have fun, the man declared in public:
"A person who has such a partner in the world, who has such a friend, is as happy as he is in heaven!"
After a few months, his wife finally became pregnant.
The man danced with joy and did not leave his wife, and even the old maid complained that he had robbed her of her work, shouting that he was going to drive him outside the house.
Of course, "happiness" is a magical thing that comes too quickly and disappears quickly.
The wife died in childbirth. The man wept like a tearful man, but looking at his son who was screaming in his infancy, he wiped away his tears and was determined to pour all his love into his son.
The son is fortunate that he grows up slowly even without milk; even if there is no maternal love, it is useful for the father's love. What the son wants, the man will give, put it in the present, but it is a typical "spoiled" parenting.
Moreover, in addition to the fatherly love of the man, the son also has the love of Durtur. Durtur often came to men's homes, brought all kinds of toys, jumped in his arms with his child, deliberately stabbed the child with a short beard to play...
In the whole family, only the old maid did not want to see this child. She often shouted:
"Have you ever had a child like that?" In this way, he will really become a monkey! ”
Soon, the child will be 9 years old.
But the child could not read anything, his body was very thin, and he only ate cake and candy. The old maid often complained about two big men, spoiling the children, not eating and just snacking.
The man smiled and looked at the old maid, the old mother who had brought him up, and said:
"What's the solution?" My old mom? I love him so much that it seems that you have to go with him. ”
One day at dinner, the man and his son were eating. However, in front of his son, he had his favorite cake. The old maid couldn't look at it anymore, so she brought a bowl of broth up and put a bowl in front of the young master.
The little young master sniffed it, pushed the bowl open, and shouted "Yuck."
The old maid was furious. She grabbed the little young master, clasped her hands, and then picked up the soup spoon and poured it into her mouth.
The little young master burst into tears, his hands and feet jumped wildly, he threw out his tongue, and his face turned red, as if he was going to die. The man was stunned at first, and then he pounced, grabbed the maid's neck, pressed it against the wall, and shouted:
"Get out! Get out! ...... brute! ”
The old maid broke free and cried out with blood-red eyes:
"What's wrong with you?" Want to hit me? Just because I let my child have a broth? If you give him cake like this again, he will eat it to death..."
The man was shaking from head to toe, and his mouth kept shouting:
At this moment, the old maid also stared at the man like crazy, and said in a trembling voice:
"Do you think you can treat me like this?" This furry kid, he's not your breed at all! ...... Everybody knows this secret, and you're in the dark..."
The maid escaped. She knew, her master, that she was going to go crazy tonight.
The next morning, the maid cleaned up the messy table of the previous night, cleaned up, got the children, and waited for the man to come out and settle the account with her. But she waited left and right, and never saw her master come out.
So she walked gently to the door of the man's room and listened to it, but there was no sound. She pushed open the door and saw the man's tall body hanging from the beam of the roof.
On the table, there was a letter that read:
Mr. Durtull, I went, and I entrusted the little one to you.
@Ekiko said parenting
The story is from the famous short story writer Maupassant's novel The Little Guy. The man in the story is full of sadness.
First, there is a kind of pain in the world called "being greened"; and the pain is that it is greened by one's good friend. This man is such a sad person.
Second, coddling is not love, but a sweet destruction of the child. There are too many people who do not know this reason, so are the men in the story, and many parents in reality are even more so.
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