The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 255 Life is moving
Zhang Li went to high school when she was 17 years old, and her younger sister was fifteen and in the second year of junior high school.

My mother died that winter.

My mother has been in poor health. Zhang Li has been staying at home as long as she can remember, unable to go out of the mountains, unable to do heavy work, and taking medicine all day long.I remember when I was a child, my mother always lost her temper for no reason, saying: "What kind of medicine do you take! Don't care about anything, it's better to die."

Whenever this time, my father said: "Why don't you worry about it, I'll see you."

Later, when I was in elementary school, my mother really got better, her face became rosier, and her temper changed a lot. She no longer said that she would die.

Mom wants a brother.

At that time, I didn't know why my mother wanted a younger brother, but now I know, my mother wanted to leave a descendant for my father to pass on to the old Zhang family.

why?Because father is too kind to mother, that is love.

But in the end, my mother failed to give birth to a son for my father, and the disease did not heal, so she left.

That winter was very cold, so my father sold the new car he bought to haul grain, and also sold the four tile-roofed houses he had just built.

After her mother left, the second semester began, and Zhang Li knew what was going on at home.She was poor and rented in three earthen huts at her uncle's house, and there was an endless stream of people asking for bills. Her sister was young, so she decided not to go to high school.

That was the first time Dad got angry, it was scary, and he scolded her to school.

She respects and admires her father.After getting to know men, she felt that her father was an amazing man.

Three years after my mother left, my father not only paid off the foreign debts, but also built a new house, so that she and her sister had a warm home.

Home is always a strong fortress, with it there is warmth, support, support, and hope——
Zhang Li went to a junior college after high school, and her younger sister also went to a technical school.

The young and vigorous father does business at home alone, with no one to take care of him.The two sisters are sensible, and the father married the stepmother, and then had a younger brother.

To be honest, I feel uncomfortable after having a stepmother, and I always want to kiss my mother.Uncomfortable is uncomfortable, but the stepmother is sincere to her father and takes good care of her. The relationship between the two is also good, so she can rest assured as a daughter.To be honest, I am grateful to my stepmother in my heart, but I just don't say it.

I thought it was good, but who would have thought that my father would leave too——
At this time, Zhang Li's father's face appeared in front of Zhang Li's eyes, and tears flowed out.

Dad left in a hurry, thinking——

It wasn't until this time that she deeply understood her father—father's love is as deep as a mountain, deep and heavy.

Wipe the tears off your face.

The mother and child on the opposite side have already moved forward, leaving the child's laughter echoing in my ears, just like the happy laughter of myself and my sister when I was a child——
Going forward again, there is a pavilion in front, a rockery behind the pavilion, and a long corridor.

There are six or seven old people in the gazebo, some play the erhu, some play the pipa, and some play the gong.A charming aunt in her [-]s stood in the center, singing a Beijing accent with full of vigor.

That figure, that voice, every move, every frown and smile, singing, singing and fighting, the real life is vivid.

Zhang Li didn't move forward, but stood still five meters away, listening, watching and admiring seriously.For a moment, I felt that I was the aunt who sang an opera, living my life leisurely and tastefully.

live yourself.

Yes, don’t people just live themselves?
If there is no this disease, some things may not be cleared up to now, and I am still entangled.

She thought of her father again.

That was when I graduated from junior college and just started working. I majored in travel service and worked in a hotel as a foreman.

In my heart, I object to my father looking for a stepmother, but I also hope that my father will be taken care of.

This is an ambivalence that people who have not experienced it cannot understand.

We see in novels and TV that sensible children agree with their father or mother to find a wife, and they are happy about it, and they say in their hearts that if it is themselves, they will do the same.

When it is not true, when it is true, I feel more or less uncomfortable, unwilling, or even opposed.

Human nature.

Zhang Li and her sister didn't object, they smiled and said they agreed and supported, but they still had that in their hearts.

Ever since her father brought her stepmother into the house, Zhang Li went home less often, feeling embarrassed, unwilling to call that mother, and unable to say it out loud.At the same time, I felt that it was no longer my own home, but someone else's, only my father was there.

This somewhat affected her character and life, so she had the ups and downs of her first relationship.

Falling in love with a man who has a family and a job, the military representative of the aircraft factory.

When the vigorous love finally ended in tragedy, because I was young, I once blamed my mistakes on the family - if my mother was here, it would not be like this, or if my father didn't look for a stepmother, he still cared and loved himself as before. so.

She has been brooding.

Dad passed away, I was sick, and everything was relieved after going through the gate of hell.

That was just my youthful experience, but it was absurd and crazy.

Which teenager is not crazy?Who is young and not absurd?
Dad, I shouldn't blame you, it's my own fault, now I know, can you forgive me?If you don’t forgive, you have to forgive, who told me that I am your daughter.Zhang Li said in her heart, with a coquettish and mischievous smile on her face.

After the charming auntie sang a verse, she went to the bench and picked up a glass of water to moisten her throat. Several elderly people who accompanied her also took a break. Some drank water, some smoked, and some stood up and stretched their waists and hips.

Take a nap and prepare for the next paragraph.

This is also a small break in life. After singing, we rest, not for the wonderful applause, but for continuing to go on stage.

Zhang Li bypassed the gazebo, walked through the rockery, and came to the promenade.

In the middle of the promenade, a couple snuggled together, sweetly chatting with each other.

The boy didn't know what he said, which caused the girl to laugh coquettishly, the laughter was like the chirping of a bird on the top of a willow tree.

If she used to see such a sweet couple, Zhang Li would think of herself vividly, and feel envious and feel sorry for herself at the same time.Now these are all gone, and some are just appreciation and blessings.

Changes in a person's mood are often after an experience.Learn to be strong through hardships, know how to cherish through life and death, know how to be willing after losing, and life is beautiful.

When there is kindness, beauty, and tolerance in the eyes, everything around me becomes beautiful, which is touching.

She walked forward calmly and with a smile on her face, and when she passed by the young couple, she turned her head and blessed: "It's so sweet, come on!"

The young lovers were taken aback for a moment, and then said in unison: "Thank you."

It's good, it's good to be alive.

Get out of the corridor.

Looking up, the sky is blue, with a few cotton-like white clouds floating, and a warm wind is flowing in the air.

She couldn't help stretching her arms, closing her eyes, took a deep breath, and let it out slowly.

Open your eyes, the sky is still blue, the clouds have not moved, and the wind has not calmed down.

How beautiful, heaven and earth; how beautiful, everything.

She wanted to yell excitedly, but she stopped, her eyes filled with tears——
Kind readers, please understand, this is the touch of life and gratitude for life.I am glad that I am alive, the world is so beautiful, and I live up to my years.

Zhang Li returned home with excitement and joy, took a comfortable hot bath, then called Yanhua and told her that she was going to work tomorrow.

"You're crazy, why worry about going to work, stay at home!" Yanhua said with kindness and sternness.

"Going to work is to recuperate. It's better to have something to do than to stay, and exercise." Zhang Li said.

"No, I want to exercise and go to the park."

"Hehe, it's okay, I'll go home when I'm tired."

"That won't work either!" Yanhua said resolutely.

"It's settled, I'll let you know and hang up."

Before Yanhua could say anything, Zhang Li hung up the phone, and then turned on the computer to check the operation of the restaurant in recent months.

(End of this chapter)