The holiday party time is coming again, and the people of the Zhou family gather together. Zhou Rong walked into her younger brother Zhou Bingkun's house, with a wish in her heart, that is, to shorten the distance with her daughter Yueyue.
Yueyue, I went to the parent-teacher conference last week, and I heard that your essay won the first prize, why didn't you tell your mother?Zhou Rong asked softly, trying to make her tone seem natural.
Yueyue frowned slightly, with a hint of unhappiness in her tone: "You're not here, where can I tell you?"”
Didn't I come last week?Why don't you say it?Zhou Rong asked.
I forgot. Yueyue replied lightly.
Zhou Rong looked at her daughter who had grown up in front of her, and her heart was mixed. Since Yueyue was more than two years old, their mother and daughter have been together less and more apart, and their emotional foundation is weak. Today's Yueyue is no longer the little girl who needs her mother, and Zhou Rong has also missed the precious time of giving her daughter love.
When Yueyue needed her mother the most, it was her uncle, aunt, brother and brother who were by her side. For her mother, she has long since become numb. Between Yueyue and Zhou Rong, there seems to be no other topic to talk about except for formal dialogue.
The root of all this can be traced back to Zhou Rong's "four pigeon releases". The first time, on the eve of the Spring Festival that year, Feng Huacheng was finally rehabilitated, and the family of three was ready to go back to Zhou Rong's mother's house for the New Year. However, at the train station, because of Feng Huacheng's wayward behavior, which led to chaos, he was arrested. In order to save Feng Huacheng, Zhou Rong had to hand over Yueyue to Xiao Guo and ask him to take him to her grandmother's house. At that time, Zhou Rong said that when Feng Huacheng settled down, she would pick up Yueyue, but this wait was a few years, and by the time she saw her daughter again, they had become strangers.
In the years that followed, the family of three was never reunited due to various reasons. This has laid a hidden danger for their family affection. Nowadays, whenever there is a happy gathering on holidays, the estrangement between mother and daughter is still obvious. Those days of missing companionship and lack of emotion made the relationship between Zhou Rong and Yueyue alienated and awkward. After graduating from university, Zhou Rong came to Beijing to look for Feng Huacheng. Just happened to meet the opportunity of the national college entrance examination, she has always dreamed of studying at Peking University, and now she finally has the opportunity to come true. So, while looking for Feng Huacheng, she was preparing for the Peking University exam. After hard work, Zhou Rong was admitted to Peking University and found Feng Huacheng at the same time. Feng Huacheng was also rehabilitated, assigned to a job in the library, had his own house, and finally settled down in Beijing.
Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng started a new life, Zhou Rong reads, and Feng Huacheng works. They were so busy with their lives that they gradually forgot that there was a child waiting for them at their grandmother's house. Until she went home during the summer vacation, Zhou Rong took Feng Huacheng to see Yueyue. After two and a half years of separation, Yueyue no longer knows them, and only likes to be with her aunt. Although they wanted to take Yueyue to sleep at night, Yueyue was only willing to follow her aunt, and in desperation, they had to send Yueyue back to her aunt's house.
Zhou Rong once told Yueyue that she would come to pick Yueyue home when she graduated from college. But this time, it's another promise that can't be kept. There are too many lies, and no one will believe them anymore.
After a few more years, Zhou Rong graduated from graduate school, and everyone was looking forward to her coming back to pick up Yueyue. At this time, Yueyue had been in the Zhou family for more than 5 years. From 2 to 7 years old, Yueyue was almost taken care of by Zheng Juan, and as Yueyue's mother, Zhou Rong did not fulfill her responsibilities for a day. She always said that she would come to pick up Yueyue when she graduated from college and graduate school, but these promises never came true.
Time is cruel and can make people forget a lot of things. Relationships between people, especially between children and parents, need to be nurtured from an early age. And the family affection between Zhou Rong and Yueyue gradually faded in the long-term separation and untrustworthy promises. The difference between birth and nourishment is really thought-provoking. The birth of life is only a short-term pain, but raising children requires endless patience and dedication. Every need of a child, whether it is hunger, pain or sadness, requires our meticulous attention and comfort. When they need comfort the most, the people who accompany them can often occupy a place in their hearts. Children's hearts are pure, and they know who is good for them and who is bad for them.
Zhou Rong, she only has herself and books in her heart, so much so that she forgets her responsibilities as a mother. And Yueyue, she may no longer remember what her mother looks like, for her, her mother may only exist in that name, and the mother-daughter relationship that once existed has long since disappeared. I thought that when I returned to my hometown, I would take Yueyue away. However, as time passed, Yueyue gradually lost her expectations for home and missed her mother while waiting. In her life, her uncle, aunt, brother and brother became important relatives to her, while her parents became strangers.
Yueyue had expectations and fantasies, but Zhou Rong missed the appointment again and again, like an invisible knife, stabbing that fragile heart. From the initial mother, to the later uncle, and finally even the mother is no longer needed, which is a long and painful mental journey. Zhou Rong's promise, whether it was settling down with Feng Huacheng or taking the entrance examination, did not come true. She once thought that if she took Feng Huacheng back to her hometown to work, she would be able to take Yueyue home, but the reality is that she became the youngest associate professor at Jiangliao University and had a stable job and life.
However, the environment here is not suitable for Yueyue. The noisy crowd, the harsh environment, and the quality of the residents who are not high make her hesitate. She was afraid that this would affect Yueyue's studies and physical and mental health. So, once again, she chose to release the pigeons. Although she tried her best to go home to visit Yueyue every week and try to make up for those missing moments, the damage had already been done, and Yueyue's heart had long been closed. This long-term defect can be repaired in a short period of timeEspecially at this time when Yueyue is entering a rebellious period, will she still give her such an opportunity?In fact, I already have a grudge against my mother. Those rash answers again and again, as well as careless words, are my painful counterattack to Zhou Rong's four no-shows. Zhou Rong's road to mending her relationship with her mother is still long and challenging.