The story of the second generation of Zhiqing
Feather Fly Fly [Epilogue]
Pearl raised Xiao Qiu this time by herself and slept with her at night. She felt that her mother was indeed too hard, and she should be allowed to get a good night's sleep, and she could make up for her lack of sleep during the day.
As for the store, it is its own business anyway, and it will develop well in two years. That spike is not bad, can maintain the shop, pearl is more assured.
At the same time, Pearl also thought of the years of grievances against her daughter Ji Li, she was so tossed, throwing her daughter to her grandmother, and did not care about her well. Thinking that her daughter is now living under the eyes of her stepmother, Han Ping is busy at work, maybe her daughter has been wronged, Han Ping is not clear, and Pearl is really not at ease.
Therefore, she consulted with her mother, and then contacted Han Ping, and decided to go to Ningbo with her mother to visit her daughter and see what was going on, of course, she also took Xiao Qiu with her.
Xiao Qiu is almost a year old, can stand, and can walk a few steps, especially naughty. Sometimes they would sing mountain songs and scream endlessly with their voices. Grandma said don't bark, and broke her throat. He was still barking, still cocking his little feet, and he admired himself.
Pearl picked a good day, and three generations of mother and daughter went to Ningbo.
When they arrived at Ningbo Station, only Han Ping picked them up. Han Ping said that Li Lifen cooked at home, the first time you came, she wanted to cook a good meal for you to pick up the wind, Han Ping also said that Li Lifen cooked vegetables is a good hand.
Pearl didn't hear clearly, she thought she had heard wrong, and asked Han Ping repeatedly: What are you talking about? Her name is Li Lifen?
When it was indeed confirmed that it was Li Lifen, Pearl's mind immediately appeared the shrew who scolded her all over the body, the ex-wife of Qingqiu.
Oh, my God! How is this possible? Pearl was embarrassed to hold Xiao Qiu and stood there frozen.
Mai Zi was also there, thinking that this was over, no wonder Ji Li kept saying that she didn't like the little brother in Ningbo, nor did she like the aunt.
When Han Ping heard Pearl say that Li Lifen was Qingqiu's ex-wife, Han Ping also froze there.
Everyone was silent, not knowing how to speak.
Pearl calmed down first, and she said to Han Ping: Since you have been married for many years, and since she has become my daughter's stepmother, let's go and meet.
When Pearl walked into Han Ping's house, she was still praying in her heart that it would be better to just be another woman with the same name and surname.
When Li Lifang stood in front of Pearl, although she hadn't seen her for many years, Pearl was still stunned, it was her, it was really Li Lifen, just a little fat, that bit collapsed nose, that pair of cunning squints, yes, it was Li Lifen.
Li Lifen smiled slyly and politely invited them to enter the house quickly, while saying: Now it is quiet, Ji Li is in school, Ji Cai is in kindergarten, and when they come back, it will be lively. You rest first, drink tea first, eat fruit、、、
She is a hostess, a warm housewife, enthusiastically stretched out, the landscape is not exposed. Seeing Xiao Qiu still hugged and said: Ah, what a cute child, and two small dimples.
What can pearls say? She thought in her heart that she could only wait to see her daughter and ask her, is this stepmother a person or a ghost?
Mai Zi hugged Xiao Qiu, but her heart went up and down, thinking that it was good for the harem to have a few, not to mention that they still had such entanglements.
Ji Li came home, and when she saw that her grandmother and mother had come, she threw herself into her grandmother's arms for a while, and then she threw herself into her mother's arms, and she didn't know how happy she was. He also hugged Xiao Qiu and said that his brother was fat.
Xiao Qiu screamed, especially interested in ji li and Ji Cai. But Ji Cai did not lean forward at all, leaned over and reached out to pat Xiao Qiu, Li Lifen pulled Ji Cai tightly, not allowing him to move.
At dinner, everyone sat down around the table, Li Lifen did cook vegetables, a table of rich and delicious dishes were placed in front of him, Ji Cai bowed his head and just ate, Li Lifen kept picking dishes for everyone.
Ji Li sat in the middle of her grandmother and Pearl, far away from Li Lifen. Li Lifen stood up with a roasted chicken wing and put it in Ji Li's bowl, and said that Ji Li loved to eat chicken wings. But Ji Li looked at her and didn't pick up the chicken wings and eat them.
Pearl also sandwiched a chicken wing in Ji Li's bowl, and Ji Li immediately picked it up and ate it, looking at Li Lifen while eating. Pearl looked silently in her eyes, and she couldn't tell what it felt.
After eating, Li Lifen said that there are guest rooms at home, so you can stay.
Pearl said: No, thank you. We had a reservation room at the hotel and took Gilly with us in a moment, anyway tomorrow is a weekend holiday. He bowed his head and said to Ji Li: Baby, don't forget to bring your school bag and go to the hotel with your mother for two days.
Han Ping held his stomach and waited until the Pearl family went to the hotel, Ji only slept, he hurriedly pulled Li Lifen to the living room, opened his mouth and asked: Why didn't you explain that you were Qingqiu's ex-wife?
Li Lifen heard Han Ping say that Pearl was coming to Ningbo, and she had already made preparations in her heart, and said with a smile: I am afraid that you will not marry me.
So why are you looking for me?
You're a good man, and of course I'm going to marry you.
That's it?
Of course, you're a good man with a lantern that's hard to find. Saying that, Li Lifen snuggled into Han Ping's arms. He also said: People are tired and busy for a day. We've been married for a few years, not to mention the past. And he said: I don't beat or scold Ji Li, am I not good?
So why didn't Gilly eat the chicken wings you clipped to her?
It is not surprising that I did not conceive and gave birth to her in October, and no matter how good it is to her, I am also a stepmother, not kissed.
Han Ping was speechless for a moment.
Li Lifen said: "Do you think your stepmother is so good?" How many people would say that the stepmother is a good person?
As a result, the conversation between the two people turned into Li Lifen's grievances.
At this time, Pearl and Gilly are also talking.
Pearl asked Ji Li: Did Your Aunt hit you?
Gilly shook her head.
Did she scold you?
Gilly shook her head again.
Give you good stuff to eat?
Ji Li thought about it and nodded again.
Then why don't you call her Mom?
Just don't bark, she's not my mother, you're my mom.
So why don't you eat the chicken wings she clipped to you?
I don't like her, I don't like that brother, I like Xiao Qiu's brother. Ji Cai's younger brother always bullied me, and my aunt said that he wanted to let him go. Dad also said to let him.
Pearl couldn't ask why, and she thought that her stepmother was really difficult. Looking at the way she welcomed them warmly, it didn't seem too bad. But remembering the words she said in the store many years ago: "You wait, I will make you regret it", and I am not at ease. Then she thought that she chased Han Ping to the hand and became Ji Li's stepmother, which was revenge.
Pearl also remembered a sentence that Han Ping said after the divorce: You are chased by me, and I am chased by others、、、
Li Lifen was intent on chasing Han Ping, and that was enough.
So, Pearl and Ji Li said: Auntie cooks and washes for you, and is also taking care of you, you don't fight with her, you have to let her like you, so that your mother can rest assured. He also said: Mom will come to see you often, and Dad will hurt you, do you have to obey?
After staying for a few days, Pearl wanted to go back, and Ji Li cried and cried, and said that she wanted to go back with her mothers, saying that Ningbo was not her home.
Pearl corrected her and said: "You have two homes, and we both like you."
In fact, Pearl is also sad, but she takes Xiao Qiu and runs a shop, which is too busy and helpless.
Fortunately, Han Ping hugged Ji Li and coaxed and coaxed, saying that your classmates were reluctant to you, and your father was reluctant to you, and when you were on vacation, your father would send you to your mother's house.
Ji Li thought that her mother would often come to see her in the future, and her mood was much better, and li Lifen was no longer so confrontational. Li Lifen also felt it, and felt that pearls did not provoke the relationship between their stepmother and stepdaughter, and the entanglement in her heart was alleviated a lot. Moreover, Qingqiu is no longer there, and Li Lifen inevitably has a little compassion.
Pearl remembers her daughter and goes to see Ji Li when she has time. Taking this opportunity, he also taught Li Lifen how to do beauty maintenance herself, and raised Li Lifen's slightly collapsed nose. Li Lifen was very happy and admired this pearl that was already a beautician.
The two families each live their own lives, each playing their own small calculations, and at the same time the two families come and go like relatives and walk very well.
Xiao Qiu was even more peculiar, after he could talk, suddenly one day, he saw Han Ping open his mouth and called Daddy. Pearl did not stop, Han Ping also very happily agreed, while holding Xiao Qiu high, this has been called Daddy since then, very naturally like a family.
With the precipitation of the years and the increase of his resume, Han Ping's temperament has improved very high, and people have also gained some weight, which seems to be quite personable. In some people, the increase in age will make him more attractive.
Children also have their own destinies and grow up according to their own rules. Ji Cai went to school, Xiao Qiu went to kindergarten, and Ji Li primary school was about to graduate.
Pearl began to expand the storefront, she also learned to design hairstyles, hired more than a dozen employees, and led the staff to start to do multiple projects of beauty services for customers, clothing, hairstyles, skin, nail art, and tattoos, the business is getting bigger and bigger.
She also installed a stereo in the store, and she said that sound therapy is actually a skill that can be developed, and there is always beautiful light music floating in the space in her shop. She constantly goes to Hangzhou to learn the scriptures, keep up with the trend of the times, and now people's looks in the society seem to be more and more valuable, and it seems that they can ascend to the sky step by step. Some actors and celebrities even go abroad to beauty, in order to improve their appearance, they spend thousands of dollars.
Soon, male beauty also increased, beauty shops in Sleeve Mountain blossomed everywhere, the beauty industry became more and more popular, and pearl beauty business was particularly prosperous.
Soon, Pearl bought a ladies' car, got her driver's license, and drove it herself. The style was completely different, she was already the best of the local women, no longer the daughter of the poor and young people who had been born in the past.
Sometimes Mai Zi looked at this and also did beauty, a rich and extremely beautiful daughter, as if she was not born.
Mai Zi thought again, at that time, we only had a few changes of clothes, all black and gray a set, walking on the street men and women are all like this, to say that good looks are army green. Like now, pearl's wardrobe was lined up against the wall, colorful, in all its styles, and the number was uncountable.
Pearl also bought her mother a lot of beautiful clothes, and Wheat said that I was old and dressed up, more beautiful than when I was younger!
Of course, Pearl also bought clothes for Old Jia Abba, Old Jia dressed up quite temperamentally, people were originally born in a bookish family, but they were delayed by the times.
Sleeve Mountain is also booming, bringing in many talents, and the population has doubled than before. And build parks and flower forests everywhere, to make The Sleeve Mountain into a garden city, a tourist city, and when it comes to holidays, tourists are like a tide.
Time is like an arrow, in the busy days, the children have grown up, Ji Li has gone to the United States to study, Ji Cai and Xiao Qiu are also in middle school.
Sleeve Mountain has striden into a new era, and the cross-sea bridge that communicates with the mainland has been opened to traffic, and since then the graben has changed its way. The mainland's high-speed rail is also constantly spreading, and the traffic is more convenient. Smartphones replace landlines, the Internet can reach the world, pearls can advertise online and contact customers everywhere.
The store was run by the agent, pearl was the manager, and she didn't have to go to work every day.
Occasionally, she would accept invitations and take her toolbox and assistants to Hangzhou, Shanghai, Wenzhou and other big cities to provide door-to-door service to customers with faces, and she was already a senior beautician.
Pearl sometimes travels with her family to Japan, Taiwan, Eastern Europe and other places.
After returning from the tour, MaiZi posted travel photos in the group chat of the Zhiqing comrades-in-arms. Wheat will also be typed on a line: Comrades in arms, look, this is my daughter and I in the Greek Aegean Sea, Santorini photos, is not beautiful?
Comrades-in-arms gave a thumbs up, a piece of praise and envy.
Mai Zi was extremely proud, she said that she did not expect that Pearl's daughter was really close.
Pearl's big eyes, pointed chin, and moist face in the photo are beautiful.
In these travel photos, Pearl can't see her age at all, as if she is still a young girl, there is no wrinkle on her face, her pupils are dark and dark, and she is charming.
Today's beauty skills have disrupted the human world, true and false deceived people's eyes, no wonder Han Ping can not do without pearls, no wonder the pearl business is so developed, her own young and good face is the best advertisement.
There is also a handsome Xiaoqiu in the travel photos, and this teenager is really handsome.
Sometimes, Pearl looked at this talented and intelligent son who looked like Qingqiu, and her heart was happy and painful. She couldn't love anyone else anymore and was single all the time. One is that I am afraid that if my son has a stepfather, he will be wronged. The second is that she will never meet a good man like Qingqiu who can touch her heart. Pearl is very tall now, she is clean and self-righteous, rather than indiscriminate.
Ever since Ji Li went to the United States to study, Pearl stopped going to Han Ping's house. But Han Ping would come to see her often, as long as Pearl had something to ask for, Han Ping would help her as always, with Ji Li's daughter, this thread always implicated them.
Han Ping also cares about Xiao Qiu as much as himself, so much so that Xiao Qiu has always thought that Han Ping is his own father.
Pearl also feels that love can be transformed into affection, affection can also stimulate love again, the world is unpredictable, and now she has two men in her heart, Qingqiu and Han Ping.
Pearl does not dare to think of Qingqiu, the thought of Qingqiu Pearl's heart will hurt, that pain is indescribable, it is a desperate pain, the death of the lover can not be resurrected, will make people fall into the abyss, and then will be tired of the world, escape and go to the end of the road. The pearl had to gently put qingqiu down and bury it deeply, not daring to touch it.
For Han Ping, Pearl often thinks of it. I don't know when they started, their constant contact made Pearl gradually get used to it, as if they were not divorced, and Han Ping was still her husband.
Even Mai Zi regarded Han Ping as his son-in-law, and every time Pearl went to Ningbo, he asked Pearl to bring a box of Han Ping's favorite fish and fish grilled meat. Or Han Ping came to the Sleeve Mountain, the wheat must send a bowl of grilled meat fish and fish, and watched Han Ping eat with joy, as if he was still the mother-in-law looking at the son-in-law, how could not see enough.
But what does Li Lifen think?
After Li Lifen became a mother, she has changed a lot and matured a lot. She thought that I couldn't make trouble, couldn't hurt the harmony of the two families, she didn't want to think so much, she turned a blind eye, as long as she could maintain this family, as long as Han Ping didn't divorce her, and was so good to her, it was enough. After all, she had to rely on Han Ping to feed herself, and without Pearl's self-sufficiency and independent personality level, she had to concede defeat.
This is also the influence of the social environment, and now the relationship between some men and women is not clear. Even the grandmother in the United States accepted pearls, she said: I have two daughters-in-law who have something wrong, indicating that my son has the ability.
The blue sky and white clouds of the Aegean Sea are very beautiful, the blue sky and white clouds of the Sleeve Mountain are also very beautiful, and pearls sometimes sit in front of their own bay windows, obsessively can look at half a day, watching the white clouds change unpredictably under the blue sky.
Sometimes she also wonders, am I an ugly duckling turned into a swan? If my mother hadn't been so poor and let me keep reading, would I have become a writer?
She seemed to see a white cloud like a feather, floating between the white clouds. She also thought that she was the feather, blown by an invisible wind, and did not know where to blow.
Pearl has also seen the movie Forrest Gump and read the book. She remembered what Forrest Gump had said: Life is like a box of chocolates, and the results are often unexpected.
Forrest Gump also said: I don't know if we have our own destinies, or if we just drift around in the wind.
July 22, 2022 The full text is completed
Postscript: Some comrades-in-arms said that I was telling a story, and indeed, today the story of the second generation of young people is finished. There are too many characters in the story, and I have insufficient spare energy, in fact, this is the framework of a long novel, there are the second generation of Zhiqing, or even the third generation. The level is limited, you can only tell the story like this, write it, publish it, but you are not satisfied, leave it for the next life to write it, this life is like this. Zhiqing is no longer the time of dreaming, but the time of surrender. Thank you comrades-in-arms readers for reading, what do you feel, you can understand for yourself, I hope there are friends who can understand me. Thanks!
About the Author
Zhang Yijing Female After dropping out of school, I worked as a temporary worker, a military reclamation fighter, a farm worker, and an enterprise nurse, but I loved literature, and "thin clouds and rain do not become mud", just an amateur. Fortunately, many comrades-in-arms like my writing, and they are also pleased. Thank you!