Chapter 514 Seven Years Later
"arrive."
The car slowly stopped, the three of them opened the door and got out, standing side by side by the lake and looking into the distance.
This is a vast lake. You can't see the shore at a glance, so you can't see the lake either. Because the end of the lake reflects the sky, the sky and the lake are connected together, and the starry sky covers everything within sight. Your own insignificance is infinitely magnified, and the distance of the stars and the vastness of the sky are also infinitely magnified. As long as you don't look at your feet, you will feel like you are in the universe.
"Is it beautiful?" Flora looked at the sea of stars in front of her. The stars were reflected in the green lake in her eyes.
"Very beautiful." Su Ming sighed.
Xia Xiaoyu opened her eyes wide, staring at the stunning scenery in front of her: "Wow! This is really...ah...Su Ming, do you want me to camp here today? The sky is our blanket and the ground is our bed, we will stay here today..."
"Be quiet first, don't ruin this poetic scene, and don't sleep here today." Su Ming interrupted flatly.
He looked at the scene in front of him and felt that it seemed familiar.
He suddenly felt endless loneliness.
But because the flight was so close, I didn't feel lonely.
A complex feeling...worth savoring slowly.
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Seven years later.
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My name is Su Yu, the eldest son of the Su family. I am seven years old and will be in the second grade of elementary school.
I also have a younger sister, Su Xiaoxiao, who is one year younger than me.
Recently I discovered that I seemed to be born in a special family. Although I already knew that my family composition was very special, I recently discovered that my family composition is actually much more special than I thought.
My mother, Xia Xiaoyu, is a non-existent person. No one can see her. From childhood to adulthood, except for my father, me and my sister, no one else can see her. Although I don’t know what is going on, the fact is that no one can see my mother.
Having a mom that no one can see and that I can’t talk to anyone about at all has caused a lot of trouble in my life.
I remember when I was in the first grade of elementary school, the teacher told us that everyone should learn to be cautious when alone, that is, when you are alone, you should act as if there are other people around watching you and be self-disciplined so as not to do anything inappropriate.
There is no doubt that when it comes to being cautious and self-disciplined, I am definitely the one who meets the requirements the most. Although I am not cautious and self-disciplined in the strict sense, I am definitely cautious and self-disciplined in the eyes of others.
For example, now, in the eyes of others, I am taking the exam alone, but in fact, my mother is sitting next to me watching me do my homework.
"Idiot! How did you do this math? You added 42 and 51 and calculated it as a whole ten or a whole hundred. Didn't you check the question carefully? Can't you see that these two words are as big as these two words?" Xia Xiaoyu said, pointing at the question that Su Yu had written wrong on the test paper.
"Mom, could you please stop speaking so suddenly? It's an exam now, can you let me do the questions by myself?" Su Yu said helplessly.
"What's wrong with your brain ? I tutored you all night yesterday, how come you still don't know how to do it! I really don't know if you are your father's biological son."
Su Yu lowered his head and looked at the test paper in silence. He really wanted to retort that you know whether you are his biological child or not, but he knew he couldn't say it, otherwise he would have one less dish for dinner tonight, while his sister and father would have one more dish, and they would also have entertainment activities that they didn't have on weekdays.
Frankly speaking, Su Yu felt that his mother was very immature and didn't act like his mother at all compared to his godmother. He felt that his godmother was much better than his mother.
My godmother is very beautiful, and it seems that the parents of my classmates all respect her very much. In addition, my godmother is very nice to them and is very good at teaching math. More importantly, my godmother also likes my father very much.
In short, compared with the godmother, my mother has no advantage at all. I think if my father was not so afraid of my mother, he would definitely choose the godmother.
"Hey, Su Yu, what are you daydreaming about! Is this question so difficult? I see you just want to eat one less dish for dinner!" Xia Xiaoyu stared at her son angrily, as if she was going to twist his head off.
"Mom, you can't be like this. Can't you be like a godmother? This is not how children should be educated. You should be patient and gentle with me. Actually... Actually, it doesn't matter what you do to me, but if you treat Su Xiaoxiao like this, Su Xiaoxiao will definitely be depressed. You don't want to see both of us depressed, right?"
"Can you be serious? Stop talking to me, you are taking a test now! Look at this, what's wrong with this multiple-choice question? If your dad were here, he wouldn't even need to look at the question! He can get it right by guessing blindly." Xia Xiaoyu said angrily.
Oh, it would be great if it was my dad who accompanied me to take the exam, but unfortunately someone could see my dad, Su Yu thought.
Su Yu likes her father more than her mother.
Dad never cares about their studies. Even if they fail the test, he will just say, "Oh, it's okay for kids to get the questions wrong. Just correct it later."
To be honest, Su Yu was very curious why a father with such a good temper would end up marrying a mother with such a bad temper. This was really incomprehensible.
Besides, no one could see my mother, so how did the wedding take place?
"Hey, you're wrong here again. I taught you yesterday."
"What's wrong with making a little mistake? I will correct it later." Su Yu imitated Su Ming's tone and said.
Xia Xiaoyu raised her eyebrows, stared at the back of Su Yu's head coldly, and said coldly: "If you imitate your father's speech again, I will beat you when I get home from school!"
Su Yu's hand holding the eraser trembled slightly, then he silently changed the answer and secretly glanced at the wall clock.
He knew that he would be free soon because his mother would go downstairs to the first grade to supervise his sister's studies.
After the exam, he will be free and his godmother will come to pick them up.
After a while, Xia Xiaoyu got up and walked out of the classroom. Su Yu immediately breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he was free.
Twenty minutes later, the bell rang for the end of get out of class. After handing in the test paper, Su Yu rushed out with his schoolbag. He saw Su Xiaoxiao on the first floor, but he didn't walk over to her. Instead, he rushed straight to the school gate.
There were huge crowds of people at the school gate and the sound of car horns. In the surging crowd, Su Yu recognized her godmother at a glance.
"Godmother!" Su Yu smiled and ran towards Flora.
When Flora saw Su Yu, she took off her sunglasses, smiled, and held Su Yu's hand: "How was the exam?"
"good."
"Not bad! I'll make you something delicious when I get back!"
Su Yu let out a long sigh, feeling that his tense nerves had finally relaxed.
Xia Xiaoyu also came out holding Su Xiaoxiao's hand. Seeing Su Yu holding Flora's hand, she frowned and said angrily, "As a brother, why don't you come to pick up your sister? What if your sister is in danger?"
"I saw you. How could Xiaoxiao be in danger with you around?" Su Yu complained.
"Anyway, you can't do this. What if I don't come to pick you up in the future? You have to develop a habit now."
"Okay, okay, I get it. I think you're just overthinking it. Even if you don't come to pick us up, don't we still have our godmother? She's awesome, right?"
"These are two different things," Xia Xiaoyu sighed helplessly, "Let's go home first. I want to have a good talk with you when we get home."
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When I got home, I saw Su Ming lying on the sofa reading comics as soon as I entered the door, like a pampered young master.
When Su Yu saw his father like this, he became even more angry. He wondered why a child like me had to study so hard, while his dad could do nothing but lie on the sofa all day long playing games and reading comics, and even go on business trips every few days. The gap between the standards that his mother required of the two of them was too big. This was blatant double standards!
"Are you back?" Su Ming said to everyone.
Flora said, "Get ready, dinner will be ready soon."
Xia Xiaoyu: "Xiaoyu got the basic questions wrong again in the exam today. It's really infuriating. Can you please have a good talk with him?"
"Oh, you're just a kid. When I was little, I often made mistakes when doing questions. I remember when I first learned pinyin, my parents and grandparents had to rely on rote memorization. Now I never make mistakes in pinyin. What does this mean? It means that as long as you are old enough, the knowledge that you couldn't master before can be easily mastered! Don't you agree, Xiaoyu Xiaoxiao?"
Xia Xiaoyu frowned slightly, and there was a hint of anger in her eyes as she looked at Su Ming. When she thought of the father and son working together to talk back to her, she wanted to hang up the younger one and beat him, and put the older one on the bed to educate him.
"Dad, please stop speaking for me. I feel like you are harming me." Su Yu said with a sullen face.
Su Xiaoxiao licked the lollipop and said indifferently: "I got full marks on the exam, so I'm not afraid."
"Hubby, please be more serious! You know, one day we will have to..."
Halfway through her speech, Xia Xiaoyu fell silent.
Su Ming smiled and glanced at the other person, his expression quite calm.
He knew that what Xia Xiaoyu was worried about was that after they left this dimension and went to the lighthouse, Su Yu and Su Xiaoxiao would be left alone, but Su Ming believed in his son and daughter and knew that they would be fine even if they left.
"Don't worry, it's time to eat. Put your bags down, wash your hands and wait in the restaurant."
Su Yu pulled Su Xiaoxiao and ran away happily. Xia Xiaoyu came to the sofa and sat down next to Su Ming, with her hands clasped across her chest, looking sulky and sulking.
Su Ming looked at the other person sideways, his eyes wandering wantonly on Xia Xiaoyu's body. The perfect body curves and delicate facial features, smooth and fair skin and prominent feminine features made her completely different from the one he remembered. She seemed even more fascinating now.
Before I knew it, seven years had passed. Xiaoyu is now 25 years old, which is considered very young for a mother of two children.
If I think about it carefully, Xiaoyu and I were in a premature love relationship… But it’s a good thing it was a premature love relationship, otherwise we wouldn’t have the fun of comparing the before and after.
Su Ming stretched out his hands and put them around Xia Xiaoyu's slender waist, but as soon as he touched her, his wrist was grasped tightly by Xia Xiaoyu.
Then, he felt a cold gaze, it was a death gaze!
"Husband, I've told you so many times, don't do this anymore. Now is not the same as before. The two little brats can see me. Don't mess around anymore." Xia Xiaoyu whispered softly.
She thought what she said was very gentle, but it didn't sound that way to Su Ming. He shuddered and obediently took his hand back.
Su Ming knew what the consequences would be if he continued to insist on his own opinion. He would be severely punished by Xia Xiaoyu. Ever since she had two little ones, Xia Xiaoyu's temperament changed drastically and she no longer obeyed him in everything. At first he thought it was good, but now he felt a huge gap.
"Well! How about tonight?" Su Ming didn't want to give up. He squinted at Xia Xiaoyu and hinted at her with his eyes.
"I'm sorry, I have to tutor Xiaoyu tonight. He doesn't study hard enough." Xia Xiaoyu felt deeply sorry. She pinched Su Ming's chin and gave him a light kiss on the cheek to comfort him, but this comfort could not eliminate the disappointment in Su Ming's heart.
He hesitated for a moment and then added: "But it will be over at nine o'clock, right? We..."
"After that, I will collect information and come up with a scientific study plan for Xiaoyu. By the way, I will also see if there are any better tutoring classes. I plan to let him attend a tutoring class." Xia Xiaoyu said.
Su Ming sighed and picked up the comic book again: "You are not the same Xiaoyu as before, do you not love me anymore?"
Xia Xiaoyu also sighed: "I love you, don't say things that make me sad. Tomorrow during the day? I won't go to school during the day, okay?"
"Very good, you still have me in your eyes." Su Ming nodded with satisfaction.
The sound of the door lock turning was heard from the entrance again. Apart from Su Ming, Xia Xiaoyu, Flora and the two children, Alice was the only one who had the key to the room.
"Dad! I'm back!" Alice shouted as she entered the door.
She looks much taller than before, but if you compare it with the time that has passed in reality, you will find that Alice's growth rate is different from that of ordinary children.
When I first met Alice in Fear of the Stairs, she looked to be only six years old. Now that so much time has passed, she only looks to be ten years old.
She's growing much slower than the average child, but she's still growing, which is a good thing.
"Sister Xiaoyu, this is a gift for you!" Alice came to Xia Xiaoyu with a box of exquisitely wrapped chocolates. "The uncle from the Investigation Bureau gave it to me."
"Thank you, Alice!" Xia Xiaoyu touched Alice's head.
"I have a day off tonight and there's a great movie going on. Do you want to go with me?" Alice asked.
"Okay!" Xia Xiaoyu agreed immediately.
"Okay! I'll go call Sister Flora, and then tell my brother and sister too!" Alice skipped away.
Su Ming looked at Xia Xiaoyu in shock and asked in surprise: "Didn't you say you wanted to prepare tutoring materials?"
"Ah, this, let's do it tomorrow. It's a rare day off for Alice." Xia Xiaoyu said as a matter of course.
"But Xiaoyu and Xiaoxiao are going too. They won't do their homework?"
"It's not a bad idea for the family to go out for entertainment occasionally. You have to do your homework early when you come back. If you come back late, you can just stand during morning reading tomorrow as punishment. Anyway, as long as I don't scold him, he won't care." Xia Xiaoyu said with a smile.
Wow, what blatant double standards.
It turns out that Alice is the biological daughter, and Su Yu was adopted.
Su Ming suddenly remembered that Xia Xiaoyu once compared giving birth to a child to taking a shit. Perhaps she really felt that giving birth to a child was almost the same as taking a shit.
Of course, it may also be because things that cannot be obtained will always make people miss them. Over the years, Xia Xiaoyu has been trying to get Alice to call her mother, but has never succeeded. Although she has now compromised with the identity of a sister, the desire deep in her subconscious may still not stop.
"Okay, time to eat!"
Flora filled the dining table with dishes, and the two children jumped into their seats. Alice, as the eldest sister, sat next to them.
Xia Xiaoyu sat next to Su Ming, and Flora sat on the other side of Su Ming. The family was having a great time.
Although the structure of his family is very different from that of an ordinary family, Su Ming doesn't mind. He is used to this kind of life now.
"Mom, our teacher assigned us a homework to write an essay titled 'My Mom'. I can't write about you, what should I do? Do I not have to do this homework?" Su Yu stared at Xia Xiaoyu expectantly.
Xia Xiaoyu sneered: "Do you think you can escape? Write about your godmother in your composition! Of course, you have to write another one for me to see, and write about me in that one!"
Su Yu's face turned pale. Actually, he originally wanted to write "godmother", but he thought his mother would let him not do his homework because she was jealous, but in the end, the amount of homework doubled.
"Alright, alright! I was just kidding. You just need to write about your godmother. We'll go out and watch a movie together later, so you don't have to do your homework."
"Ah? Why?!" Su Yu showed joy on his face. This happiness came too suddenly, making him a little overwhelmed.
"Thank your sister. It's your sister who wants you to go out and see a movie together." Xia Xiaoyu looked at the children with a smile in her eyes.
"Great! That's great!" Su Yu cheered.
"Thank you, thank you, sister!" Su Xiaoxiao gave Alice a lovely smile.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Su Ming smiled. This simple happiness made him feel safe and comfortable.
Although he knew that he would leave eventually, he might have to stay here for another twenty years.
Twenty years is a very long time.
(End of the book)
