father - home

Mother was indeed in the kitchen, as was Mrs. Reininger.Seeing me, Mrs. Reininger's face showed a very unnatural expression.

"It's just in time for you to come. This is the cheese pie that Anne just made. Zhao likes it. You can take it." Mother put the breakfast on the tray.

I glanced at the tray, didn't move, raised my head, mustered up the courage, and called out: "Mother!"

The mother understood right away, gestured to Mrs. Reininger, and said, "Annie, take breakfast to Mr. Fu first, he is very hungry."

After Mrs. Leininger left, my mother waited quietly, but I didn't know how to speak for a moment.

Mother poured a cup of coffee and handed it to me. "This is made by Annie." The coffee my mother made was terrible. I once said it half-jokingly, but she remembered it.

I took the coffee, stared at the reflection of the brown liquid in the cup, smelled the bitter aroma, suddenly had mixed feelings, and said a thousand words, "I'm sorry, mother."

Mother shook her head slightly, and sighed silently like she did after beating me yesterday. "You look too much like me."

My mother and I looked at each other silently, without apology or explanation.We are too much alike to understand each other, not to mention we love each other.When I looked at each other, I suddenly found that my mother had wrinkles, which were on the forehead and between the brows.Mother is old.This year, my mother aged very fast.A year ago, she looked like a 30-year-old young woman, beautiful and plump, but now, she is no younger than her actual age.I didn't fix my eyes on my mother's wrinkles, and I didn't lament her hard work. These wrinkles and these hardships in life made my mother more attractive and charming, but the feeling was different.

"Did Zhao ask you to come?"

I nodded honestly.

"Zhaozhen is a good boy. If he can always be by your side, it will be your blessing. It's a pity..."

What my mother said was a bit unexpected.I always thought that my mother accepted Zhao because of me, but I didn't expect... "You like him too?"

"Yes, I like it very much. We all like it." The mother smiled gratifiedly and sincerely. The smile was so touching and full of maternal love.

"Like all of them? You mean..."

"Zhao is a good boy. If he was just your ordinary friend, everything would be easy, but unfortunately not. Paul and Annie are simple and responsible people. They trust, support and be loyal to each other. They want their children to be the same, In this way, you can live a happy and stable life. But things backfired. The matter between you and Joseph was a heavy blow to them. Joseph sacrificed for you, and Verma ran away for this. Their lives were almost ruined by you, but they They have never blamed you. They forced themselves to accept the reality, and they have always been single-minded and loyal for this family. I have persuaded them many times, but they can't let go of your father and this family. They haven't visited Verma in Berlin until now. And her kids... Marty, I'm sure you know what you're doing, so I never stop you, but that doesn't mean, I can understand that Paul and the others, too, want them to accept a foreigner all at once, and It’s such a special status that you have to give them time.”

"I know, mother, but..."

"I get it, Marty, I get it. Zhao has suffered a lot, more than we can imagine."

"how do you know?"

"Yesterday I had to have Weidek and Paul tie Zhao up. He didn't recognize us anymore, he was yelling and seemed to be reliving some horrible things. I think he didn't want a lot of people to hear and know These things, so, I can only gag him too...It's too pitiful, I really can't bear it, but I can only do this...Marty, you won't leave right away, will you?"

"I took two weeks off."

"That's good, try to stay with him during this time, he is really suffering. You have experienced everything with him, so you can't tolerate the slightest harm to him, which makes you paranoid, irritable, and unreasonable Paul also understands these things, so even though your words broke his heart, they still love you, and they also like Zhao. No matter how sad or wronged you are as a parent, you will never hate your children. Just now, Paul saw you and Zhao Standing together on the air vent, he was worried that Zhao would catch a cold, so he immediately ran to tell me."

It turned out to be like this.I really misunderstood the old butler for the aging figure under the window.What made me like this?Is it love for Zhao?Is it Zhao's suffering?Or is it the devil in the dark corners of my heart?

Each of us is born with good and evil, and what we do is the result of our own choices.Zhao has suffered more than I imagined, but he has no resentment, wariness, suspicion, or hatred. He always smiles, is always generous, kind, maintains faith in human nature, and is full of hope for the future.

The mother continued: "Paul has been in our family all his life. Your father and I respect him very much. You have never spoken to him like you. Marty, you know, only if they feel respected and trusted here, They will truly consider this place their home.”

"Mother, I'm going to apologize to Mr. Reininger right now."

If before I met my mother, although I knew that I had wronged my mother and Paul, I still had a knot in my heart, but now, the knot has been untied, and my heart is suddenly clear.There are inevitably differences, distances, and estrangements between people, but it doesn't matter, as long as there is love, everything can be made up and narrowed.Think about it carefully, I did bring too much danger and pain to my family and my relatives. This was not intentional, and I can’t help it, but I should at least put myself in their shoes. If you want others to understand you, you must first understand others , and open your heart to be understood.This is the biggest difference between Zhao and me.Under the humble and gentle appearance, Zhao always thinks of others, but I have always been only myself.

I put down my coffee cup and went to see Mr. Reininger.

My mother stopped me, hesitated, and said, "Marty, I know I shouldn't ask about the nature of your work, and I don't want to know what the concentration camp is... I mean... I'm just suggesting that you should consider Get out of there."

My heart is sinking.I close my eyes and control my emotions.It's late, mother, it's late.I was stupidly deceived and almost lost Zhao because of it.Of course I won't tell my mother this. "I see, mother. Maybe the matter with Zhao is over."

Mother nodded. "Well."

"By the way, mother, why didn't I see Yu?"

"Well, you have to ask Zhao. Yesterday morning, they talked for a while, but of course no one understood. Later, Yu went back to the house to pack her things and said that she was going back to Berlin. I asked Weidek to take her to Munich. "

"When are you coming back?"

Mother shook her head. "She didn't say that, maybe Zhao knows."

"Oh." I thought about it.Zhao didn't mention Yu's going to Berlin at all. It seems that he has something to hide from me.

"Marty, I don't know what you guys are doing, but I trust Zhao, he won't hurt an innocent girl."