Chapter 20
Faith and hope
The appearance of father and son Sam attracted medical staff, patients and their families, all of whom expressed admiration. Sam and his father were very annoyed, but there were so many children surrounding the two of them. Half of the children followed their parents to the hospital, and the other half were wearing patient uniforms, the father and son couldn't bear to chase away them.
Healthy children asked their parents to take photos of idols. Everyone was afraid to be associated with the scandalous guy, so they took their children away from the hospital.
Sam didn't care about the crying and tantrum babies. He noticed the sick children chirping and begging him to take pictures with them. The little ones radiant face with bright round eyes looked at him.
The children looked haggard and thin, perhaps battling illness and suffering in pain every day, but they were still laugh happily and hoping that Sam would accept. The parents don't prevent or take the kids away like a bunch of rich people. They happily let the kids hug Sam's feet tightly.
Sam was silent and motionless, the aura of fame, along with jealousy, suspicion and contempt, had buried him for a year. Sam thought that apart from his family, his life was just hell.
Now he realized that there was this world still has a little humanity left. That humanity came from the innocent children who waited to die every day, that humanity also came from the poor people whose hearts were nobler than those of the nobility people.
That is the parents of sick the children were talking and laughing with Sam. The children were happy and their parents were as happy as if it was a holiday. A mother approached Sam with her son, who was about eight years old.
He squinted at the sallow-faced child, frail but handsome, with sharp eyebrows like swords and eyes brighter than the stars in the sky - as elite as Hoang Kim, as if were copies of each other.
This child looks a bit like Sam's older brother when he was a child, Hoang Kim has always been masculine and angular since he was a child, and this boy has the appearance of a future handsome guy, it looked at him in a daze, Sam squatted and smile asked:
- What is the kid name?
It stared at Sam without fear:
- I am Kim Thai Duong.
Sam mumbled the name a few times to remember it, then heard kid mother say:
- My son likes you very much and always says he wants to meet you. Please take a photo with it.
A man approached Sam with his daughter:
- My daughter too, please take a picture with it!
Others smiled softly:
- That is the motivation and will to help overcome the disease!
The parents' limbs were covered with mud, and lime mortar and cement stuck to their wrinkled and worn clothes. They were ordinary working people. Every day struggle to find a piece of rice and a piece of clothing and take care of the children. Where do I get the brains to make calculations hold the thighs of celebrities?
Even though the media shamelessly parasitizes the poor, no one is crazy enough to spend a lot of money to save the children who come into contact with Sam - the worst guy of the worst guy. The showbiz industry only likes stars, hot girls and hot boys, and has no time to hunt down people who don't bring benefits. Sam asked:
- Everyone not afraid of my bad example?
They laughed softly:
- I believe you are innocent!
- I believe that Hoang Kim will not trust the wrong person!
Everyone who believed in Hoang Kim, synonymous with believing in him, for a long time, he was waiting for a stranger who did not believe rape girl. As long as one person believed in him, the old case was closed. But every moment, he was criticized, criticized and criticized, nothing but criticism and humiliation, contempt and being spurned.
The court returned his innocence to him, and the people of this damn dog's land did a 180-degree turn... mourn, sympathizing, supporting, and praising him to the utmost.
Those who had given themselves the power of judgement had helped Sam dump all the humiliation into those who had framed him, no one was genuinely congratulating or happy for Sam.
Those who met Sam split into many factions. The excited faction shook hands and smiled as if they had known each other for a long time, while the fearful faction stayed away more than avoiding leprosy, and the faction disdain is all over face.
Any day unlucky meet a group of people who are sick think everyone is disdain looking at self to find let excuse to cause trouble, Sam smashed all their faces, to hit broke their teeth. A group of people who like to express off had to be hospitalized for a long time. He was disciplined by the team.
Netizens singing the song praised it yesterday, cursed it the next day, the national team needs results so that the leader can keep his seat.
Yesterday, netizens sang praises, and the next day they cursed. The national team needs results so that the leader can keep his seat.
Sam brings glory back to the fame-hungry ones, and the chorus once again rings out with the immortal voice and a bunch of beautiful words.
A vicious cycle erodes the belief that there will be people treat him as a human being. A few people scattered across the internet take sides for him and protect him from all attacks. It was hard to believe how kind the virtual world was, he didn't even know if they were male or female, it was hard to guess the gender, let alone the human heart.
The faith fell to the bottom, and now it is resurrected in front of the poor but rich in humanity. The unspeakable secret are like a stone suppressing disappearing in progress vanish, the working people help him to throw away the burden.
The deep ice hole in his heart was warmed by sincere emotions. He was worried that his frequent fights would have a bad influence on the children, everyone laughed:
- You just proved that we don't trust the wrong people!
- Every fight is started by the uneducated group, you have to protect yourself!
Kim Thai Duong's mother said the last words:
- My son said that if it was you, no one could bully it!
The father smiled cheerfully and patted Sam's back hard:
- Everyone, stop praising it, my son is about to cry, its eyes are red!
All laughed out loud together. Normally Sam would swearing, retorts with his father, but the kids were staring at him and he had to set an example for them. Sam laughed it off and worked with the kids to realize their dreams.
Every child was happy and radiant, with a little vitality showing on their pale faces, bringing hope to their parents and those who had once lost all faith.
Father and son Sam said goodbye to everyone. Adult patients and medical staff chased after them and asked for their autographs, the two signed and quickly left the crowd.
The father and son turned left and found the recovery area. Sam gently opened the door of room 1. Sam and father turned into stone statues and looked at Hoang Kim who was lying motionless. His whole body was covered with white cast like a mummy. The bandaged head was closed, with only the nose and eyes exposed. The mouth must be oxygen, wear a neck immobilizer, and a faint heartbeat flashes on the electrocardiogram.
Sam had prepared himself mentally in advance, but the state of being worse than death still shattered his rationality, enveloped his spirit with fear, and etched hatred into his subconscious. He painful looked at his mother who was crying with her head down beside her son.
- Mother!
The familiar voice reminded the mother that she still had a son. The two were not her biological children, but her heart and life. Life was only a faint breath away from the boundary between living and death.
Heart broken, angry at the unfair laws of nature that make bad people live longer and good people die younger. This suffering was more unfair than all the humiliation thei brothers had to endure.
Sam face grayer than ashes. He looked at his mother with a stunned look, her hair had turned completely white, tangled and drooping, her face was covered with deep wrinkles like cuts from a knife, eyes swollen and red, cried until he became glazed. When the second son came to visit, his mother said softly:
- Welcome home, son!
Every time he came back, he loved to hear that sentence the most. Whether sad or happy, his mother always wanted her son to hear the greetings of welcome to family reunion.
This place of cold and death is not home. There is no home to return to now. She forced a smile and try to lift self own spirits. Tears soaked the bitter smile on the lips of mother and son, Sam silently hugged the one who did not give birth to him, but cared about him as much as her own child.
He once asked his father: Where is his biological mother? Every child has a mother who loves him, but he has never seen the figure of the person who gave birth to him. At first, father concealed the fact for fear of shocking Sam.
Much later, when his father got drunk and lost control, he scold mother a promiscuous, and she ran away from home to follow her mistress while Sam babbling to called mother.
Even Sam though he kept coughing until his face turned purple, crying until his voice became hoarse and call for his mother but the heartless woman does not want to see for the last time the child she must carry heavy in her belly and then painfully birth.
Day son cried until he fainted in his father's arms and he watched his mother's shadow disappear into the night, husband decided regarded as the wife with conjugal life bed is dead.
The anger passed, and the father froze, looking at his extremely panicked son. He regretted it, fell down and hugged his son. Sam was surprised to find that his father's shoulders were shaking slightly. The son knew that his father was crying, and fearing that Sam would see his weakness, he hugged his son tightly, ultimately stabbing himself in the heart wound.
At that time, Sam didn't know what ran away from home to follow her mistress, or why his strong father had to suffer so much. Everything was so strange to Sam that he didn't dare to say a word. That was the only time Sam asked about his mother. The son was afraid to touch his father's pain.
When he grew up and witnessed the tragedy replayed at his friend's house, Sam realized with shame that the woman who gave birth to him but abandoned his father and son because of her lust.
Sam thought about the past, thinking that his father was crying because of betrayal, and he ran home to comforted, Sam run up to the room, and immediately froze in place, staring blankly through the crack of the door.
The father leaned against the wall, holding one half of the photo in one hand and the other half in the other, slowly combining the two pieces into a photo of a woman holding her newborn baby, Sam didn't know who it was until he heard his father mumbling:
"You abandoned it ten years ago, do you still remember it?"
The father tilted the bottle and took a sip, but his sorrow became even more sorrowful, and his resentment burned in the heat of the spicy wine yeast:
"Sam enmity you so much! But I know it wants to see you once. Son wants to see the face of the mother who abandoned it!"
Sam was shocked to recognize his mummy and him. Maybe that was the last time his mummy hugged him. At that time, he could only cry and laugh, and didn't know how to called his mother.
The moment he called "mama" for the first time, the person who brought him into this world left him.
He had never received warmth from his mother, had never heard her sing a lullaby, and had don't know yet how to be happy while eagerly waiting for mother to return from the market, like many other children.
He only knew how to hatred becomes the orphan who lost his mama while she was still living a happy life.
Anguished and enmity for the person who gave birth to him is the greatest pain in his life without a childhood.
"I am both a father and a mother. Everything a mother should do for her child, I do it all for Sam on your behalf!"
The father looked at the yellowed black-and-white photo with a heavy heart, hot tears burned his red eyes, and his iron face melted in the man's tears:
"But only a mother can bring the feeling of motherly love!"
The father cried commiserate for his son's lack of motherly love. Sam stood outside the door, tears streaming down his cheeks, and wanted to call out but his voice was choked by sobs. He was in a daze, watching his father shed tears for him, from past to present, he only saw his father angry, impulsive, laughing and teasing, but he didn't know that his father was silently enduring the pain alone.
For the first time, his father expressed his thoughts, it seemed that his father had been waiting for this silent period for a long time, the man who had always been proud did not want to be strong in the face of adversity. At the moment when only silence was his companion, father got rid of his strong appearance to commiserate for his child and laughed mockingly at himself.
Sam once heard a miserable person sigh that a man must endure grief to feel so tiny small, all men are tiny small in the face of pain. At that time, he did not understand what this sentence meant.
Witnessing his father huddled in the darkness, burning photos to cut off ties with the past, he saw how pathetically small his great father had become.
Sam clenched his fists until they bled, and vowed to erase all thoughts of his mama from now on.
He only has a father, but no mama.
He only needs his father, not his mummy.
Even though she dying right before his eyes, Sam wouldn't wasteful a single tear on the woman who had abandoned father and son.
The second mother's love warmed the cold heart. Every time she went home with Hoang Kim, Sam was cold to Thanh Hang, but she still cared for him. Whenever Sam avoided her, Hoang Kim subtly reminded him, but he just uh-huh let everything pass. Mother always spoke up for him and even blamed older brother for being too harsh on him.
For the rest of his life, he will never forget the time he spent in the re-education camp, Hoang Kim was implicated, vulture deliberately set a trap for his mother:
"Hoang Kim lost his career because of Sam, what do you think?"
The mother be calmly replied:
"I believe Sam is innocent!"
The vulture still tried to peck:
"Why do you believe in Sam so much?"
The mother looked straight into the camera without hesitation:
"I am Sam's mother! I believe in my son!"
That interview went around the world. Sam cried like a baby at his mother's sincere affection. It took him fifteen years to realize that a mother's love is greater than the sea and the sky.
That feeling did not come from the person who gave birth to him, but from the mother who did not abandon him. Whether Sam lived in the halo of fame or died in humiliation, she was still his mother.
Her biological son lost everything because of Sam, but she still protected Sam with motherly love. She is his mother, not a promiscuous woman who abandoned father and son.
At this moment, Sam's respected mother was holding him in her arms, and their shoulders were wet with tears of sympathy for their non-blood relatives. Mother and two son are not blood relatives, but a long time ago, peach blood flowed in everyone's veins.
Sam's father - a man who has experienced all kinds of joys and sorrows but still can't suppress his grief, Hoang Kim is his son's older brother, benefactor and father friend of different age.
He and Hoang Kim are from different generations and sometimes have different views, but among his countless friends, Hoang Kim understands him best. Without the help and counsel of Sam's brother, the life of father and son would have ended behind bars.
Hoang Kim also became the faith and will of his son, who now lives a vegetative life and is in danger of becoming a lifeless corpse. The father was afraid that no longer one would understand him, that his son lost his faith and will, and that this damn world would turn him into a monster. The father was shocked to hear his son ask his mother:
- Mother, what happened, why is my brother so miserable?
Sam asked again, but she still hesitated and didn't dare to say anything. Sam put his hand on his mother's shoulder:
- Mother, don't be afraid! From now on, no one can hurt my brother! If any dog dares to bite my brother, I will break its neck!
Thanh Hang wanted to hide the truth, but Sam was observant, and if she avoided it, he would become more suspicious, once she told him the cause of the accident, she would be forced to reveal the shocking secret.
Thanh Hang absolutely trusted Sam and his father to keep the secret. She was worried that Sam would have a hard time accepting this disgusting crime, that he would have not sympathize, that it would confuse he and older brother. She was also afraid that Sam would leave his mother and brother forever.
The mother idly thinking and decided that she had to wait for a justifiable and reasonable opportunity for Sam to fully understand the situation before she hoped that Sam would still regard Hoang Kim as his older brother.
- I just hope you brother is okay. Let's talk about everything when your brother wakes up.
Thanh Hang handed the key of the house to Sam and his father:
- Father and son are tired from the long journey, go home to rest and make it convenient, and come to visit again tomorrow!
Thanh Hang change the subject but cannot hide her family. Father and son Sam don't understand why she is hiding. Why let the abnormal accident sink to the bottom? Hoang Kim make a mistake, or was he trapped by someone?
Stars like Hoang Kimthe most sensitive is to being undisciplined, addicted to banned substances, gambling and drinking, quarreling and fighting, having relationships with gangsters, match-fixing and... girls. Hoang Kim is not stupid enough to hit its head on a pile of garbage. There is only one last reason.
Girls across the country and even the world are more obsessed with Hoang Kim than drugs, and everyone is willing to die for him. Sam is also frustrated because girl follows him, not to mention the national crush. But to what extent is Hoang Kim so self-indulgent that this is so tragic.
Maybe he had sex with girl and got her pregnant. This possibility is the biggest among countless unreasonable things.
The father and son made wild guesses and immediately shook their heads to deny it, unable to believe that Hoang Kim had done something so crazy, Hoang Kim was not the kind of person who indulged himself and denied responsibility, he had no shortage of beautiful women were willing to devote themselves to self and bear children for self.
The older brother was not so eager for sex that he played the immoral game. Questionable and then negate, Sam and his father were driven crazy by the mysterious question mark so many. The two did not want to force Thanh Hang, and the father and son waited patiently for the mother to confide.
Father Sam leaned a chair against the wall and sat down with his back against the wattle walls:
Sam took off all his roller skates and skateboards, put them in the corner, opened the door and said:
- I'm going to the bathroom.
- I'll little shut-eye.