Chapter 25
The girl in dream
Family reunion is infinite joy. Simple happiness relieves the mother's pain. Thanh Hang is no longer entangled by family affection. Human affection replaces family affection and causes her mood to toss and turn.
In the past three days, the that girl only smiled in her dreams. Thanh Hang saw the girl hand her a glass of pure water. A hundred times the same, every time she received affection, Thanh Hang woke up suddenly. The unfinished dream laughed at her daydreaming. The that girl only existed in the perfect world.
The pressure on the mind causes the dream to change. If Thanh Hang does not respond, the girl will lower her head to hide her sadness. This is a nightmare for those who live on hope.
Repeated nightmares cause doubts. The mother leans on her son and asks herself if she really believes in the girl or is she deceiving herself. Does she just need a reason to avoid despair? The moment of weakness passes, hope is shaken but not collapsed, and the mother gives all her faith to the strange girl.
A fragile trust can never be broken.
Thanh Hang kept thinking and gradually fell asleep, she lost in a perfect world. The girl didn't give anything, but was moved to hold her mother's hand. Thanh Hang received warmth from girl soft hands.
The that eyes with tears, pity, the that meek affable and gentle smile... all more real than ever before.
If this is true, Thanh Hang wants to live in this feeling forever, if this is just a dream, she hopes that the joy can be complete. Unfortunately, the dream disappeared because of a familiar voice:
- Who is this?
Thanh Hang was about to hug the girl to fulfill his dream, but her had to feel fall short again. The person who made dream impossible was Sam. The mother frowned and looked at her son, feeling frustrated. She wanted to get angry but couldn't, so she could only sigh. Her pirit is was vague suddenly heard the girl's voice answer:
- Ah, hi!
Thanh Hang was startled, rubbed her blurred eyes and immediately saw a familiar figure. She was not a perfect girl. She was just a girl who walked out from a dream, Thanh Hang still thought she was dreaming the most beautiful dream.
Mother hoped that the dream was true. The bitter thing was that she had to live with the long night of nightmares. When wish came true, Thanh Hang thought she had not woken up from the dream.
Thanh Hang silently admiring the person she was waiting for, the girl's figure became blurred in her mother's tearful eyes. Over the years, mother cried hated benevolentgratitude and moral, cried and lamented for sin, cried and mourned for her relatives, and cried for herself. All the feelings were about to crush her spirit, and the pressure disappeared in tears, because there are still human feelings in this world. She smiled slightly because the girl bow politely to Huge:
- Oh, hi, uncle!
Sam yawned, eyes are dull staring at the girl taking off her hat and face mask, he raising eyebrows, dragging eyes open like headlights, the guy loves beauty opens his mouth wide to admire the girl who is as beautiful as a flower in the dream.
Not seductive, not sharp, nor fragile, weak, that flower was so pure that even Sam - perverted guy would instantly tease the other party immediately if he saw a beautiful girl, but now he had no evil thoughts, because he just simple admired... like... admiring flower, only the innocent Luu Ly was qualified to compare with her, Luu Ly was unique for him, Sam was admiring and listening to Thanh Hang called softly:
- Hanna, I knew this day would come!
Sam opened his mouth and looked at her from head to toe with round eyes. He mouth still open stared at the old man, glancing at Sam's expression of admiration for father, Huge smiled and scratched his nose, guessing that son was secretly praising:
"Splatter the bullets, old father is about to become the god the prophecy!"
Sam did not let his eyes cloud his reason, he admire at it intently, but still focused on his mother. Thanh Hang smiled at Hanna, sitting silently beside her son, admiring the girl affectionately for a long time. She did not dare to blink, for fear that Hanna would disappear. The nightmare would not reappear in real life. She was beside Hanna, receiving the girl's low bow and solemn salute:
- Hi, aunt!
Hanna had not come to hold hands like in the dream, the girl was shy to the father and son Sam, she just smiled gently to her mother. Thanh Hang no longer begged for any wish, she was satisfied with this moderation, politeness and respect. Reality is more beautiful than dreams, confirming that Hanna is real, not a dream. Thanh Hang smiled softly with tears in her eyes. The mother and that girl turned silently to the people they cared about.
At this moment, silence replaced thousands of words.
Sam was stunned by his mother's expression. Hanna was the one who saved his brother's life, and his mother was emotional to see Hanna again. Sam still felt strange, but he was helpless and couldn't guess, so the son turned to his father. Huge blinked and made a motioned, Sam nodded in understanding, and quietly left the room with his father to let his mother and Hanna talk.
Thanh Hang was expecting Hanna, when the girl showed up, she had hundreds of thousands of words to say but didn't know where to start. Mother confusion made it difficult for Hanna to speak, the two of them were silent inadvertently creating awkward atmosphere.
Thanh Hang secretly glanced at the shyness on Hanna's face, and she laughed at herself for being inelegant. The girl don't dare yet to say anything about the relationship with Hoang Kim, and Thanh Hang's behavior was not subtle, as if she forced Hanna to disclose it. The mother chose the words to open the story:
- Hoang Kim has been hyperactive since childhood, always helping with everything, housework or delivering goods to customers, he competes with me, suffering from the fact that children run anywhere and at any time, he likes to run and jump no matter how far or near.
The mother laughed, thinking of her son's fiery childhood:
- Helping his mother to get salt to marinate fish - he runs. Buying groceries from the neighbor - he also runs. Delivering goods - he runs the fastest. He is eager to run to the point of madness, and many times he dropped broken items because of running, and was scolded by me, he learned from the experience and still runs next time!
Thanh Hang doesn't complain about the present, doesn't worry about the future, and chooses to tell her son's childhood. The innocent time can touch people's hearts more than any story. People will empathize, draw each closer. Because childhood is the best memory in everyone's life.
Hanna devotes her heart to that memory. She is taciturn sad and heads for Hoang Kim, but concentrates on listening to those stories of the past. Thanh Hang glanced at the corners of Hanna's lips that smiled lightly, and that silent joy replaced what Hanna wanted to say. It is still difficult for the mother to predict the girl's mind. She feeling Hanna remembers every flashback of the past.
- Maybe him was born to run!
Thanh Hang focused on her son, avoiding looking directly at Hanna who was confused and hiding her blushing moon. Hanna didn't expect that she would say these words of admiration. She shyly lowered her head to listen to the story of Hoang Kim growing up with the years. Every affectionate and loving word touched the girl's heart.
There is nothing interesting ordinary life story, but it makes the listener strangely fascinated. Perhaps because the monologue is a sentimental person, the listener is an emotional person, and the protagonist is the figure in the heart of the affectionate person. That figure is the bridge that connects two strangers to become familiar people. He is also a stop in life for those who care about him.
Thanh Hang talked passionately, forgetting space and time, not remembering what she was talking about, just knowing that she had to pause the story that had not yet ended, because it was very long, but it seemed too short for Hanna. The girl was confused and fall short, she still liked to listen to those stories that seemed to never end.
Sometimes stories are boring but they mean something to someone.
The narrator sat for too long, her back ached, her shoulders tired, mother slowly stood up and fell down, Hanna hurriedly helped Thanh Hang and put her mother's arm around her shoulders, Thanh Hang thanked and glanced at the toilet in the room.
Mother was old and frail, and she had to be in a place where she could move easily. That is not as remarkable as the girl thoughtfulness in every little gesture. Once again, tender emotions were deep in the mother's heart.
Emotions that are easily misunderstood remind she of the Internet gossipmongers. People who like to live in the virtual world still judge like saints without knowing who Hanna is.
The kindhearted and the gossipers are divided into admiring and envious factions. No one is as jealous as fangirl, every woman gives shooting heart to Thanh Hang's family, expresses her feelings, and tries to please her future mother-in-law, but didn't expect strange girl snatched away that the opportunity to become a bride.
Thanh Hang smiled softly as she thought of the chaotic comments online. A bunch of wives all over the world were furious and cursing Hanna, mocking that slut, that cheap whore, that fame-seeking person, that shameless clinging to my "husband" to make her famous.
Sam showed the mother how the mouth and tongue of this world could not smell, sorrow, mourning, laughing at the suffering of the victims. Everything is mixed into a mess of truth and falsehood.
The mother didn't even bother comparing them to Hanna. The mother could not offend the benefactor who saved her son's life. Hanna was the hope to revive the belief of the desperate.
Thanh Hang realized with emotion why the dream perfection turned into a nightmare. The doubtful mentality created that nightmare. The mother leaned on Hanna's shoulder in shame and returned to her son.
Hanna carefully helped her sit down on the empty bed to the left of Hoang Kim. She walked around behind Thanh Hang and gently massaged shoulders and massaged her mother along her back.
Thanh Hang was no stranger to Hanna's feelings for her, but she was still surprised by the precise acupressure skills, which was just strong enough to make the frustration and fatigue dissipate along with the pain. The upset of the past few days were gone.
The person who brought peace was the girl Thanh Hang looked forward to every day. It seemed that only by being with Hanna could mother forget her sorrow.
Although that kind of peace only happened at this moment, every minute and every second of leisure and leisure was priceless to her mother. Hanna gently pressed on the acupuncture point, and Thanh Hang felt a sharp pain. Hanna smiled gently.
- Don't worry, aunt, the pain is only temporary!
After the throbbing pain, relaxation spread throughout the body, the mother expressed the secret of her heart with intimate words:
- Thank you, since the day my son was away for a long time, today the comfortable feeling of the old days has returned to me!
Hanna paused in speechless at the mother implication of treating her like family. She paused for a moment in confusion. Since then, Hanna always around behind, ostensibly to relax her muscles, but in reality she is shyly avoiding someone's mother's face. The mother smiled slightly, imagining that shyness was painting Hanna's face a feminine pink.
Ordinary girls would rush to flatter and ingratiate, fangirls may not understand Thanh Hang's meaning, Hanna did not flatter, not ingratiate, she silently dispelled her mother's worries, at this time, no one saw her, but bashfully was still painting peach pink on the pure flower.
- No matter how well I do, I can't compare to aunt's son! - Hanna hesitated and whispered - It's like shadow and back shadow, a shadow is always a shadow, and a shadow can't be compared with a back shadow! I'm just a shadow... that's all!
Thanh Hang used multiple meanings to test Hanna's communication acumen. The mother wanted to use the scale of measuring people's hearts to understand part of this girl's mind.
Hanna answered deeply that she could help someone's mother relieve fatigue and love her mother like Hoang Kim but unfortunately she could not give the same feeling love as son's love for his mother, her feelings for her mother were just like the shadow of "someone".
Thanh Hang smiled at the multiple meanings of the answer. The mother was satisfied with Hanna's way of savoir vivre and giving true feelings to someone, "someone" is the person in the empty sentence.
Thanh Hang cried tears of happiness. Mother was still worried that because Hanna implicitly compared their status, the girl thought she was not worthy of someone.
The cruel school of life teaches those who face the false world to doubt. Thanh Hang has lived in doubt all her life, only trusts the person she cherish the most, if truly belove affection someone, she will never doubt. Thanh Hang believes in that girl, just like she believes in a mother's premonition. Intuition has never betrayed her.
Thanh Hang still ponders the inferiority complex of people who value honor, dignity. Self-respect or inferiority complex become obstacles in Hanna's mind. Thanh Hang must eliminate the invisible barriers that separate all these relationships. The mother skillfully emphasizes every word:
- The back shadow figure cannot be without the shadow, and the shadow is always behind the shadow back figure. The shadow and the back shadow figure are always together!
Behind the man is the shadow of a woman. The mother expressed her whole heart, and she hoped that the pure flower would forever be the shadow of someone's back. This sentence also implies being yourself.
The girl who lives out her true self is what mother has always expected.
Hanna bashfully understood her mother's entrustment, and her shy smile embellished the pure flower into a gorgeous bitao blossoms.
Affection has been given, and meaning has been sent, for two people who care about the same person, all words are meaningless.
Thanh Hang let the warm human feelings gently lull her to sleep peacefully, all troubles and pains disappeared with the nightmare. After experiencing so many the storms, burials, Thanh Hang got the perfect joy in the most beautiful dream for the first time.
Because the girl in the dream was with mother.
And because the shadow is always beside the back shadow...
Hanna gently helped Thanh Hang lie on the bed and covered mother with a blanket. She sat next to her mother and turned to "someone". Alone in the quiet space, Hanna gave up her reason, and bitao blossoms disappeared as if they did not exist, leaving only a drooping withering flower. Happiness was broken in painful tears.
Since that fateful day, shadow has been silently paying attention to back shadow. Back shadow always runs forward, shadow quietly follows behind. Back shadow has never seen shadow.
For three years, shadow has been eager to meet back shadow let say thank you. Dream are coming true. Reality is cruel to back shadow and shadow. Dream have become nightmares.
Life is not as beautiful as dreams.
The girl in the dream was having the most painful nightmare.
That nightmare buried the back shadow in her heart.
She will go wherever there is that back shadow, just like shadow always follows back shadow.