Chapter Thirty-Six: Man is a Reed

  "Dad, what are you looking at?" Egg white got out of bed and pushed open the door into Dad's room.

  "Nothing, just some old friends' photos." Egg-white dad hastily put the photos into the drawer and closed it. "Must be hungry, go eat, Lin Shu has already prepared breakfast."

  "Oh." The egg whites stared at Dad's panicked eyes and knew that there must be something hidden from him.

  I remember when I was young, my mother was hospitalized and Egg Tart saw his father with another woman. At that time, Egg Tart hated his father very much, but he never mentioned it to his mother. Why make a dying person suffer from betrayal? However, Egg Tart's revenge against his father and the other woman began, and at that time, he was only seven years old.

  He followed his father with his mother on his back to the place where the "woman" lived, he saw a child smaller than him, and saw that they were a happy family of three.

  A few days later, Mother left, and Eggshell saw with his own eyes the white cloth covering Mother's body, and Mother disappeared forever. For a long time afterward, he was very afraid of that white color, like life being terminated, like kinship being severed.

  Later, the 'woman' started appearing at home, Egg Qing drove her away, he smashed everything he could reach to pieces, and threw all her things out of the 'door' again and again.

  The father of the egg white came out loudly to stop him, and the egg white pointed at his mother's photo hysterically shouting, "That is mom, she is watching you, she is watching you with another 'woman' together, watching another 'woman' give birth to a child calling you dad."

  "Egg whites, I know this is unfair to you, but I hope you can understand Dad."

  "How could you?! Do you deserve to be a son to Mom? All these years, you've been doing who-knows-what behind her back. Don't think I don't know anything! It was you who killed Mom, I heard your conversation with the doctor! You're a murderer! You killed my mom just so you could be with that woman! You both should go to jail! You both deserve to die!"

  "Bang," the sudden rumble by her ear instantly made anger erupt, and the pain was not as strong as the burning sensation. This was the first time Dad hit her, for this 'girl'.

  "I'm your dad" Egg white dad's voice was very low, his palm kept trembling, like the leaves that swayed in the evening wind, unable to withstand the turmoil of the years.

  "You're not my dad, you're his dad. From today on, I don't have a dad." Egg said this and then rushed out the door, stumbling and staggering as he ran out.

  "Stop, stop!" A father's hoarse voice shouted after a back figure, it was a kind of painful emotion that pulled and tugged, accompanied by the ups and downs of the heart deep into the bone marrow.

  At that time, Egg was still a very young child. He didn't know where to go or what would happen if he took a chance and got a father, or if he would lose even a place to live forever. But he had no way out now, either get all the love or just lose everything thoroughly.

  One day, two days, his father still didn't come to find him, or perhaps he couldn't find him. He watched as the happy children who were loved by their parents walked past him, and saw a stray dog on the side of the road fighting over a piece of cake. He cried, and the big auntie across from him poured a basin of dirty water with fish scales mixed with blood onto his body, scratching his cheek, the fish's blood and his own blood mixing together indistinguishably, one was slaughtered by fate, the other abandoned by love.

  Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. It is not necessary for him to hope more than what is reasonable, nor to despair even when the wind blows strongly against him. Man must learn to bow his head before some things.

  Sometimes we call this fate.

  Finally, Egg's father found him. At that time, Egg was rummaging through a smelly trash can to find a moldy cookie. His face was covered in scars and dirt, looking like an African refugee. The handsome little suit was now stained with all sorts of filth. Egg glanced at his father without stopping what he was doing, breaking the cookie in half to share with the poor dog that had been keeping him company for days. Then, hugging the equally dirty dog, he walked past his father.

  Let's go back with Daddy, Daddy was wrong. Egg's father squatted down and hugged Egg tightly, tears streaming down his face.

  Uncle, who are you? I don't recognize you. Even if the stomach has been hungry for a few days, egg whites have always been so stubborn.

  The egg white walked to the front, picked up the dry bread that the little friend had thrown down earlier, and started eating it in big mouthfuls. It's been several days since I've eaten something so good. Uncle, you are a noble person.

  "Stop it, Lin Feng. It's Auntie who owes you an apology. I'll take your brother and leave right away." The woman finally spoke up, but Egg Tart would never forgive them for this and wouldn't make any concessions.

  "Don't say that so pitifully, when did I have a younger brother, how come I don't know?" This is seven-year-old Egg who has already learned to defy fate, he knows how to win a war with affection, and he knows how to use such sharp language to defend what he deserves.

  "From now on, Daddy will love you with all his heart. You are Daddy's only son, okay? Come home with Daddy."

  At that time, Eggwhite still didn't know that winning was just a 'flesh' battle, it was a contest of who loved more, the most hurt person was the one who loved deepest, and anytime you won someone who loved you, it wasn't considered a win.

  Now, looking at his increasingly aging father, he himself has become an old man after so many years. He suddenly feels heartache, if it wasn't for his own impulsiveness back then, there would still be a younger brother around the same age as him to take care of this elderly father. But now, everything is too late.

  As for Meng Xi, even if egg whites have a thousand or ten thousand loves, they can only let go from afar. If he were to ruin Meng Xi's happiness for the rest of her life because of his own selfishness, then he would never be able to forgive himself.

  Egg whites alone in a bar drinking, one cup after another, but also can't taste the flavor. The doctor told him not to drink, but he didn't care.

  It's inevitable to escape fate anyway, so why bother living a life of meticulous calculation, it's best to follow your heart's desire.

  "Let me go, you gang of thugs."

  "Let her go." The egg white pushed away the group of young kids who were bullying a little girl. They were all minors and ran away as soon as they saw an adult.

  The egg white walked out of the 'door', and the girl chased after it.

  "I know you, you often come here, alone."

  "I also remember you, your name is Yun Cai, don't let that kid always 'hang around' here for no reason."

  "I like you, I want to be with you." The girl directly filtered out the egg white's advice and boldly stated her own requirements, leaving the egg white stunned.

  "Stop joking around, I don't have time to play these games with you guys."

  "I'm not playing, I'm serious. I just think you're a good person and you're different from those men who try to deceive me."

  "Yuncai, I'm a dying person, are you still willing to like me?"

  "What does it mean?"

  "I'm a dying man, go find a good husband for yourself, find one who will live long and take care of you for the rest of your life. Besides, I also have a crush on a 'girl', although my illness won't allow us to be together."

  "Does she like you?"

  "Thanks"

  "You're so pitiful, let's just be friends then. But if I were a 'girl', I'd rather spend my whole life loving one person even if he's sick. Everyone must have true love once in their lifetime. If the person I love most in this life doesn't love me back, I'd rather die alone."