Late at night, outside the hospital delivery room. A middle-aged man in his thirties was anxiously waiting. It was a woman he was nineteen years old who was born inside. The worry on his face dissipated as a baby's cry pierced the night sky.
The man's name was Song Desheng and he was a veteran. The woman in the delivery room is called Li Meihua, and she is his wife who has not passed through the door. They've only known each other for three months.
Their story begins with one day in 1994. A distant aunt of Song Desheng came to his house and told him that there was a happy event waiting for him.
Song Desheng was an orphan who opened a seafood stall in the market after returning from the army. In addition to buying and selling goods every day, he drinks and plays cards, and his small life is very nourishing, but he is in his thirties and has no daughter-in-law.
Hearing his aunt say that there was a happy event, his two eyes lit up directly. The aunt is a lonely old man, who has been treating Song Desheng well all these years, and has given this bachelor who "eats enough alone, and the whole family is not hungry" with a lot of care and warmth. He is also very good to his aunt and often sends food and drink. Two lonely people are like a family except that they don't live together.
The aunt said to him, "Do you remember the working girl who lives in my yard?" It's a pretty one. She let the people of country H be deceived and became pregnant with someone else's child, but that person ran away. A while ago, the girl couldn't think about it and almost committed suicide, and now is the time when she is desperate. Why don't you marry her?"
Song Desheng thought for a while and said, "Okay, yes, I'm afraid that other girls will dislike me for being old!" ”
The aunt said: "She is like this now, where can she find a good family for a while, do you want to have children out of wedlock?" Then how will she live in the future! You will settle with each other, and no one will dislike anyone. ”
Song Desheng asked: Did you tell him? The aunt said, "Didn't I ask your opinion first, since you have no opinion, just follow me, I'll go and tell her." As he spoke, he took Desheng's hand and walked back together.
After listening to the advice of the landlord's aunt, Li Meihua, who was worried, glanced at this man who was ten years older than herself, and did not speak, and the feelings of unwillingness, helplessness, loneliness, remorse, and helplessness suddenly came to her heart, as uncomfortable as overturning a five-flavor bottle. Once again, she couldn't hold back her tears and began to cry. Song Desheng thought that Li Meihua was unwilling, he rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly: "If it doesn't work, forget it, don't cry, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go." ”
Don't go". Li Meihua wiped her tears and stopped Song Desheng. At this moment, the young Meihua seemed to see a glimmer of hope in the darkness.
In the days that followed, Song Desheng would send the reserved seafood to Li Meihua every day after closing the stall and let her aunt make it for her to eat. He also stuffed Li Meihua with money from time to time, and asked his aunt to buy whatever he wanted to eat. Desheng's actions made Meihua's already cold heart melt little by little.
Desheng also found hope in life. He no longer drinks and no longer plays cards. Seeing Meihua after closing the stall was his happiest moment. Meihua has become the focus of his life, and it has also given him hope for his life.
Three months have passed in the blink of an eye. A smile gradually appeared on Meihua's face, and the words between her and Desheng increased, and the distance between the two hearts was getting closer and closer.
One night, after dinner, the aunt ran over in a panic and shouted to Desheng: "Go and call a taxi, Meihua may be about to give birth!" Desheng got on his motorcycle and went to the highway to call for a car, and the two of them rushed Meihua to the hospital. That's where the scene at the beginning of the story comes in.
To be continued).