Ye Zhiqiu and Xiang Yong walked into the company cafeteria side by side to enjoy a quiet moment for lunch.
Just then, however, the cell phone in her pocket rang untimely.
Ye Zhiqiu took out a mobile phone, see the screen is the uncle's call, the heart can not help but "click", a surge of complex emotions.
"Hey, uncle." There was a subtle doubt in Ye Zhiqiu's voice.
On the other end of the phone, Uncle's eager voice came instantaneously: "Zhi Qiu ah, your aunt is ill, very serious !" We want to see a doctor in City M, the medical conditions here are really limited, your medical level in the big city will be more advanced, the doctor's medical skills will be more exquisite, the recovery can be faster, can you help to find a good hospital? And help us find a short-term rental house. Your brother will also come together ."
Ye Zhiqiu holding the mobile phone hand unconsciously tight, thoughts were pulled back to the past those distant and deep memories.
When she was young, the relationship between the three families had been so close.
Every festival, everyone is always happy to gather at the grandparents' home, sharing the joy of family, at that time the family is so warm and sincere.
However, since she entered junior high school, the situation at home has changed dramatically.
With the parents rebuilding their house and supporting their three children in school, the pressure to make money was overwhelming.
At that time, her parents were busy with their small business and the chores of building a house.
What makes her feel cold is that those who were once considered close relatives, especially uncles and aunts, seem to disappear when the family needs help the most.
In addition to being really busy and running to ask for help, it is the village who are not particularly close to each other in daily life, and always take the initiative to extend a helping hand, give support and help.
She clearly remembers that in the family's most difficult moment, she heard her little aunt and uncle say: "If they can go to help his family every day."
Those harsh words, like a sharp blade, deeply stung her heart, so that she had a deep doubt and disappointment in the so-called family.
In high school, although the family house is almost completed, but the parents to support the three children's school burden is still heavy.
Sometimes, the family money is not open, parents go to those who think they have a good relationship to borrow money, and make a clear commitment to repayment time, but ultimately nothing.
There were many small things that her parents had not mentioned during her stay at the school, and she had no way of knowing, but she could imagine how hard and difficult it had been for her parents during that time.
Now, the family's situation is gradually improving, the brothers have a job, bought a car, but also their own family, have children.
In contrast, uncle and aunt's home, although they have built a house, but the relationship with their own is more distant.
They always get together to have fun, talk about the wrong and wrong of other people's families, and take the initiative to show kindness in front of the parties concerned.
What is funny is that the little aunt once said bad things about her mother to an aunt in the village who had a good relationship with her mother, trying to provoke discord.
However, the aunt who played well with her mother came to tell her mother about this matter, and sometimes met her parents on the road, and even didn't bother to do it.
She maintained only superficial politeness to her two brothers and to her.
Ye Zhiqiu has long been disheartened by such relations, and in the years of studying outside, she felt the warmth from strangers, even more than she got from these so-called relatives.
What makes her feel helpless is that her father, because he is the eldest brother in the family, has been educated since childhood to let his younger siblings.
Even if these years uncle and aunt home never regarded them as big brother and sister-in-law, heart and eye quite much, do not want their own life better than them, but father still value the so-called affection.
Every time the mother persuaded: "The two families went to the street this afternoon very early to buy food to prepare, it is bedtime to call you to eat, next time."
But her father always did not listen, changed his clothes and hurried out.
It happened again and again.
Later, my mother learned that my uncle and aunt asked my father to go to dinner or play in the evening, only because the people who played in their home asked the big brother house did not come to play, and this was the temporary call to go.
Because they never forget before the two of their own to do all kinds of, so today received the call from uncle, Ye Zhiqiu psychologically is not want to help.
However, the thought of a new uncle family, unfamiliar, that a trace of blood ties and let her give birth to so a little unbearable.
She vaguely said something to her uncle, neither explicitly refused, nor readily agreed, only said that she had to go to work after dinner, and then contacted him, and hung up the phone in a hurry.
"What's the matter? You looks so ugly." She asked Ye Zhiqiu, who looked solemn and solemn in the eyes of Xiang Rong, with concern.
Ye Zhiqiu shook her head with a wry smile and told Xiang Rong the contents of uncle's call in detail.
Xiang Rong frowned and said, It is difficult.
After all, you are a relative, but they have treated your family like that in the past.
Ye Zhiqiu sighed and said helplessly: "I don't know what to do, I want to ask my mother, see what she thinks, and then decide whether to help."
After dinner, Ye Zhiqiu mind heavy back to the station, the whole afternoon, her heart can not calm down, the work is also frequently wrong, finally get through to work, she is like an arrow from the string, can not wait to go home.