"This is your purchase contract and the receipt of 50,000 deposit. Please keep it safe. "

On the delicate face of the sales girl, there is a warm and measured professional smile.

She took the contract and breathed a long sigh of relief. The young lady who accompanied her all the way smiled and congratulated her. My little sister bought the house here at the last opening, and then she has been encouraging her to buy one, saying that when she is old, everyone will take care of each other, and she will naturally understand.

Ten years ago, she wouldn't have thought about it. With her net worth of nearly 10 million at that time, she had to buy it in the city center. In those years, she also looked at many houses, but carelessly, her younger siblings, whose original conditions were much worse than hers, bought houses one after another, big or small, far or near, or for themselves or children, but she never made a move. Time flies, ten years have passed, but for the demolition at home, she can get a large amount of demolition money, and even the house in this lot can't afford it.

Life is impermanent, and life is like a dream.

They parted in a hurry in the sales department, and night fell. My little sister has two young grandchildren to take care of at home. She must go home and cook dinner for her son.

She sat on the bus with the lights on and the lights dim, but she was not interested in enjoying the beautiful scenery outside the window. All she could think about was her son. Because it was rush hour, the car stopped and stopped, and she was a little anxious. She came back too late and her son ordered takeout again. She had planned to cook his favorite Hangzhou pepper beef tenderloin for her son in the evening. Eating too much takeout is not good for her health, but her son always disagrees.

Originally, she hoped her son would come with her to sign the contract. She is over sixty, so she is a precious son. They live alone. The house is not for him, but her son is not interested in it. However, this is exactly what she expected. My son is thirty-six years old. He never works all day, has no friends or hobbies. Originally introverted, he has become more withdrawn since he broke up with his girlfriend of seven years. She can't remember how long it's been since her son's fair and handsome face had a bright smile. He either stocks or sleeps during the day and shuts himself in his study at night. He should be speculating in futures. Sometimes, she will make him a snack, then send it in and take a quick look at his computer. Whether stock futures are profitable or not, her son never talks about it, and she dare not ask. She can only figure it out from his subtle emotional changes or his words. After all, most of her property is in stocks. Two years ago, she gave them all to her son. Of course, at that time, the market value of her stock had shrunk dramatically, which was terrible.

My son seldom talks to her at home and is indifferent to everything at home. She didn't know whether his indifference was born or whether she spoiled him. The light bulb at home is broken, the water pipe leaks, and the home needs painting. She would rather trouble outsiders than let her son worry, and he never asks. Sometimes she buys too many things outside, so she would rather walk a few times than let him pick her up in the car, even though his car (bought with her money, of course) is getting rusty in the garage. She didn't know what he was thinking. Occasionally, he would say a few words to her, but his words often puzzled her, and she felt specious, unrealistic and even absurd. She thought her son was an adult, and with her intelligence and knowledge, she might not understand him. She once encouraged her younger brother, who graduated from graduate school and had a successful career, to communicate with her son more and give him some maze advice. After several conversations, his brother finally felt the same way with her: communication was difficult, his ideas were different from ordinary people, and he was either a genius or a freak.

She prefers to believe that her son is a genius.

My son has been smart and considerate since childhood. How can he be a freak?

However, he did become more and more strange, and she was vaguely afraid.

For a long time, except for the reunion dinner of 30 families, my son rarely went out with her. At the time of family happiness, he was also taciturn and had nothing in common with his cousins (except when he was a child). Besides, he has no job, no hobbies, no small family and no children. What can he talk to them about? Amusement park, karaoke, board game? They have passed the age of having these hobbies, and the gap between them continues to widen. It can be expected that he will hate such family gatherings more and more. One day, in the near future, he may not appear on this occasion again, and he will not appear in front of everyone again.

She felt heavy at the thought of her son and his bleak future.

My son is not interested in anything now, except stocks, futures and a sheepdog he keeps. He may speculate in stock futures to make a living, or he may just look like he is doing something to make a living, but he really likes this sheepdog. A few years ago, my son and his ex-girlfriend met him at the roadside of the community. At that time, he had a serious skin disease and was abandoned by his master. His ex-girlfriend is an extremely serious dog lover, but her parents won't let her have a pet for her health, so they encouraged him to adopt this sheepdog and named it Doudou. I don't know if it's because of my girlfriend, or because of the puppy's eyes that seem destined in previous lives. He also fell in love with him at once. They took him home, treated him, bought the best dog food and took him for a walk in a nearby park. Now, his girlfriend and he have already parted ways, and this sheepdog has become his only friend and soul mate. But now, he is only responsible for teasing it. He used to train all kinds of skills and make all kinds of rules for it like a child. He once said that to cultivate a sense of responsibility for family and children, we should start with raising puppies. At that time, he still had a vision for the future.

However, the girlfriend who fell in love for seven years, her son made a girlfriend he loved wholeheartedly. She has never seen her son be so kind to any ex-girlfriend, but they didn't end up together.

To others, the reason why they broke up is simple: her son's girlfriend must love him. Although her son didn't have a job (stock trading is not a serious job in many people's eyes) and despite the strong opposition of her parents, she dated him for seven years and finally reached the point of talking about marriage. Therefore, everyone said that the reason for breaking up was related to her prospective mother-in-law not preparing a wedding room for them. Now that girls are married, who wants to live with their mother-in-law?

She can only smile bitterly, because everyone's statement is not unreasonable. Although, the real reason is not just the son and girlfriend themselves, who knows! But in her understanding-after all, the seven-year love between her son and his girlfriend was spent under her nose, and the wedding room may be just, but it is really the last straw to overwhelm the camel. Every time I think about it, she has remorse and remorse, but more resentment and anger towards her ex-husband.

Yes, if it weren't for the infidelity of their ex-husband, they wouldn't get divorced; If it weren't for their divorce, especially during the son's rebellious period, his son wouldn't suddenly be tired of learning, puppy love in high school, and then be expelled from school; If it weren't for his crazy stock trading, advocating stock trading is a shortcut to become a winner in life, and his son will not disdain to do any work when he is an adult, but only fantasize about easily obtaining huge wealth through stock trading; If he hadn't kept his promise to provide his son with a wedding room, maybe his son would have married and had children with his beloved girlfriend and lived a happy life. She and her son owe everything to him today.

He is the initiator of all this, but the consequences are borne by her and her son.

The past is unbearable.

02

He is a distant cousin of hers in the countryside. After college, he stayed in the city. He started chasing after his beautiful cousin in the city. She is not only a city dweller, but also beautiful and dignified, and has a good job that everyone envies-the provincial tobacco company. At first, she disagreed. She thought that the growth environment of the two people was too different, and they might have nothing in common. But in the end, they were moved by his persistence and came together. After all, they are close relatives, and the family did not object. Moreover, after graduation, I worked in the provincial electric power company, which is also a big unit with "oil and water". The early 1980s was also the beginning of reform and opening up. There was a great demand for electricity from all walks of life, so the power company at that time had the reputation of "electric tiger".

Of course, compared with the tobacco companies that are the largest taxpayer and monopolized by the state, the power companies are still slightly inferior.

In that era of material scarcity, their combination can be described as a strong alliance. Their quality of life is not a little higher than that of their brothers and sisters at home. At that time, his sister-in-law was still in the countryside, and her elder sister was laid off as early as the mid-1980s. My sister works in the canteen of a street factory with a monthly salary of several hundred yuan. Both brothers-in-law drive taxis, go out early and return late, and make ends meet. Only my younger brother can study well, and there may be a better future. When brothers and sisters are still struggling for food and clothing, they have entered the well-off era ahead of time.

Because they have a good unit and a wide network of contacts, they solve all the big and small things at home. They can't eat all the things in their unit, so they always give them generously to families on both sides for families to follow suit.

Their son can be said to have been born with a golden key, and he has never felt the hardships of life since he was a child.

They lived a sweet life after marriage. She is gentle and virtuous, and he is elegant and romantic. Because she is the boss of the family, she is not only not as arrogant and arrogant as a city girl, but also very diligent and caring for others. She takes good care of not only their small family, but also his family. After his little sister graduated from technical secondary school, she arranged for her to work in a local tobacco company and her younger brother to work in the city, and later joined the army smoothly. The whole family respects and loves her.

In the late 1990s, her unit allocated her a three-bedroom, two-hall house with heating in the city center, which is less than 100 meter away from the provincial tobacco building where she works. His work is also very smooth, because he graduated from a key university and he is very smart. A few years later, he was promoted to section chief. Although the official is not big, but the authority is not small, it governs many local enterprises, large and small. It can be described as horseshoe disease and a winner in life.

She is the pride of her parents and the envy of her younger brothers and sisters. Her big house with heating (the house in the south rarely has heating) is luxuriously decorated and warm, which is the base camp for their big family's Spring Festival party.

This is the most brilliant moment of her life.

She often thinks proudly that if she decides to go to the countryside after graduating from junior high school instead of leaving her siblings in the city, then her life will be another ending. She suffered a lot for this, but God rewarded her richly.

Thank god. Thank yourself.

Later, his unit also raised funds to build a house, but because his wife had a house, he lost the qualification to buy a house, so he discussed a fake divorce with her so that he could get a house and his son's wedding room in the future. She agreed. She believes in his shrewdness and behavior. At that time, commercial housing on the market was still rare. It would be a pity if the unit gave up such a good opportunity to buy a house.

Disembarking, he finally fake, really have a woman outside.

He said that others were pestering him, so he had no choice but to get on the thief boat. The other brother is a hooligan. If he doesn't marry this man's sister, they will kill him.

After listening to his "story", she felt shocked, angry and humiliated ... her heart was dying.

She never thought that he, who is struggling to pursue himself, is so unprincipled and bottomless. She never doubted his loyalty, although he may have been on cloud nine for a long time in this colorful world. At first, he touched her with infatuation, only to find that his infatuation was so worthless.

Begins in chaos and abandons it.

Yes, he just abandoned the original chaos. Besides his feelings for her, everything he did later, everything he did, wasn't it?

My mind still goes back to that gloomy night that she will never forget.

That night, he confessed his affair, between the lines, it was someone else's fault. He was coerced by others, and he had no choice.

What else can she say?

Emotionally, she has been unable to accept a changed him; Legally speaking, they have divorced; Morally, she can't watch others kill him.

The previous fake divorce may be premeditated, or it may indeed be a temporary change of heart later; The so-called "underworld" coercion may also be just an excuse for him. But betrayal is betrayal. Nothing else matters.

Only two widths apart.

The house is her own, and she doesn't depend on him to support herself. She doesn't want such a man to go as far as he wants. He said that he wanted a son, which was handed down from his family, and she agreed. His son is going to high school, so it is more convenient for a father to manage.

An economically independent woman can be so headstrong.

She was too lazy to make him cry, make trouble and hang herself, or even go to a man's unit to expose his misdeeds and ruin his reputation.

Her strength and freedom made him feel a little guilty. Besides some cash, he gave her some stocks as compensation for the divorce.

He married mistress immediately.

The happy family that everyone envied fell apart.

……

She thought that after breaking up, the pain would eventually pass slowly, and she was still young and could start her life again.

03

Twenty years ago, divorce was rare. Although she made a clean break with him in a domineering manner, she never said a word to her parents, family or even colleagues about the divorce. She can hide it every day. She doesn't want to disappoint her parents, and she doesn't want to get sympathy and pity from others. She is a proud woman.

She thought a lot, but did not consider her son's feelings.

They divorced in the year when their son just entered high school, which is the key high school in the city. Originally, after entering this high school, it was not a problem for my son to study hard and play normally and get into a good university. However, the sudden divorce of parents made his son's temperament change greatly, and he began to be tired of learning, and his grades plummeted. He was absent from school, fighting, puppy love, and never changed after repeated education. As a guardian, the ex-husband only knows how to punish his son blindly, even violently. His high-handed tactics are not only ineffective, but also counterproductive.

Finally, my son was expelled from school.

Subsequently, the contradiction between father and son also deteriorated to the extreme, and the son left his father's new home and returned to her side.

Since then, raising and educating children has become her responsibility alone.

It's just that her son is not the good boy she used to know.

Naturally, she wants to help her son transfer to another school and continue his high school studies. Unexpectedly, her son is very resistant to going to school, saying that school is boring and he doesn't want to study.

Her son's idea startled her.

If you don't study now, what will you do in the future and how will you stand in this society in the future? How can a clever son not understand such a simple truth?

The fact is that no matter how sensible and emotional she is, her son is unmoved.

Isn't this betrayal a little too much? ! She felt a sense of fear and helplessness that she had never felt before.

The ex-husband also tried to convince his son, but to no avail, the son just said coldly, since you are someone else's father now, you should be someone else's father, leave me alone. The ex-husband lost patience again, then became angry from embarrassment, and finally took it out on her, blaming her for not taking in her son, conniving at him, supporting him, and threatening that he would never take care of his son again.

This time, he kept his word, and for a long time, he didn't care about his son.

She came to clean up the mess.

First of all, she used her personal connections to make great efforts to help her son get a high school diploma.

However, it is not enough to have a high school diploma.

Later, she saw a colleague send children with poor academic performance to study in Australia. The university they choose does not need domestic college entrance examination results, but the tuition is high. She thinks this is also a good choice, and the problems that money can solve are not problems.

My son dropped out of school and stayed at home for a few years. His mentality was very negative and he was out of tune with everything in front of him. His mother's idea is just what he wants.

So through her efforts, her son had the first experience of studying abroad when he was 2 1 year old.

She was relieved to see her son off.

Is there a better way for my son?

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She is very proud.

She seems to see the Australian university diploma waving to her son, and his return to China or settlement in Australia is just around the corner. All the pains, hardships and tribulations before are worth it. Even, if all goes well, my son is likely to be the so-called "overtaking in the corner." In the near future, he will throw his peers who are studying step by step out of several blocks.

God is kind to himself!

All the family and friends are happy for her, and are glad that she has finally come out of the bottom of her life.

04

However, it backfired.

A few months later, something happened to my son.

The language school where my son attended had no teaching qualification at all and was ordered to suspend classes. In other words, they were cheated. All the other children were busy looking for a new school, only the son ran back without saying anything. He said that it is too hard to study alone outside, and the food in the host family is not delicious.

She wants to cry without tears.

She knows that her son really studies hard. A child who has never graduated from high school, a child who has been spoiled since childhood and has no ability to take care of himself, it is really not easy for him to study abroad if he is not prepared for hardship. She has been encouraging him. Perhaps, without school, my son can persist.

But at this point, we can only accept the reality. Thousands of tuition fees and agency fees were paid to Shui Piao. The ex-husband opposed the children going abroad, so she paid all the expenses herself.

Learn from the painful experience.

Since she failed to study abroad, she had to play the idea of a domestic university again. Anyway, her son's high school diploma is not good. She must help her son find a new way out.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Finally, she struggled, paid a high tuition fee, symbolically sent her son to Beijing to study for half a year, and finally got a college diploma in parallel imports. My son is reluctant to study. She was afraid that her son would study hard and give up halfway. She always tells him not to worry about money, eat whatever he wants and buy whatever he wants.

With a college diploma, should my son go out and look for a job? As a result, my son put it off again and again, always saying that he was not ready. He always said that his classmates worked hard every day, but only got that poor salary, which was not worth it.

She can only be anxious.

Later, my son heard that ACCA certificate (certificate of international certified public accountant) is very popular, with an annual salary of one million. He wants to have a try. He was told that it was difficult to get it, and the domestic pass rate was less than 10%. The son said that it is because it is difficult that it makes sense to learn. Her son finally got what he wanted to do, and he had the courage to chew hard bones. She was so happy that she asked someone to buy him thousands of original English books in Shanghai.

ACCA * * * wants to take the exam 15 (can take the exam 13), and my son has taken two exams, so he can't continue to study.

During this period, my son made a girlfriend, and the girl studied nursing in Canada and was infatuated with her son. The son is handsome (this is really not her mother's bias), gentle and generous, which is the kind that girls like very much.

After the girl returned to Canada to continue her studies, her son gradually alienated her. He thinks Canada is too cold and far away, and there is no future between them.

When spring comes to Qiu Lai, flowers bloom and fall.

ACCA's dream of textual research was shattered, his girlfriend left, and his son began to feel bad at home. He even looked down on the work of the tobacco company. If he wants to, she will definitely try her best to get him in, but she has to start from the most basic position, and her son is not interested at all. He thinks he still likes Australia, and he wants to try again.

As long as her son is not idle, she will fully support whatever he wants to do as long as it is meaningful.

So, when my son was 25 years old, after a series of preparations, his son had a second trip to study in Australia.

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After so many twists and turns, is it time for my son to mature? Her hopes won't fail again, will they?

She is anxious and expecting.

05

Soon after her son went to Australia, she also retired, and stock trading became her best pastime to spend her lonely time. My son's life in studying abroad is fairly smooth, and the days seem to be bitter and sweet.

The good times didn't last long.

After studying abroad for only half a year, my son became a deserter again.

This time, he is for love.

He has a favorite girlfriend who is a high school classmate of his junior high school classmate. They hit it off on the Internet and have known each other for a long time. As a result, my son couldn't stand the pain of lovesickness and ran back desperately.

It may be for his girlfriend, or it may be because he still can't stand the hard life of studying abroad.

What can she do?

Now that he has a beloved girlfriend, maybe his beloved girlfriend can change him.

The girl is very good-looking, gentle and honest, and she is a good match for her handsome son. Seeing her son and girlfriend happy together, she thought, everything is destiny takes a hand, maybe this girl was sent by God to save her son. As soon as he comes back, as long as his son is happy, he will slowly find a job, get married and have children, and life in China is also good.

My son's love affair this time, unlike before, is absolutely serious.

In fact, the girl's job is also unstable. She is an English teacher in a training institution, not an iron rice bowl, but as long as her son likes it, she has no problem.

The son said, what job can be compared with stock trading? He can work anywhere in the world as long as he has a computer and a network. Moreover, he is confident that he can do better than his parents. Villa and sports car are only his primary goals.

No way, she gave him 0.2 million/200 thousand start-up capital to practice his hands first.

……

If there were no later stock market waterloo, if the marriage room promised by her ex-husband could not be fulfilled, her life with her son would certainly not be like this.

06

In the next few years, the stock market flourished.

Mother and son are surfing in the ocean of stocks, and they are happy.

My son and girlfriend are finally getting married. Both of them are in their thirties, and their girlfriend's youngest son is less than one year old. They began to look at the furniture. Although my girlfriend's family still doesn't accept my son, my son hasn't been to their house more than three times in these years of love.

Her relationship with her ex-husband has also eased.

She continued to accept his guidance on stock operation. She felt that this was not helping her, but helping their son. Every penny she earns will belong to her son in the future.

Her son advised her to settle down, and her brothers and sisters advised her to sell shares and buy a house, but she chose to insist.

She trusts his judgment, she is too superstitious about him, and his past record makes her think that he is a stock god.

He also failed miserably, not only in the stock market.

In fact, he has not paid attention to the stock market for a long time, and all his interests are on that land. However, this land not only didn't make money, but also got him into a lawsuit.

His already shaky marriage came to an end at this moment, he divorced again, most of his property was divided, and a wedding room he promised his son was also given to Shui Piao.

She felt sorry for her son and was cautious in front of him from now on.

07

The relationship between son and girlfriend has also undergone subtle changes.

She comes less and less.

She heard from her son that his girlfriend wanted to know about his stock, but he refused. He thinks that love has nothing to do with money.

In fact, the son may be afraid that his girlfriend will leave him after knowing the truth.

She asked the girl weakly, can you get married in this house and leave me a small room? The girl did not answer her.

They broke up after all.

That day, my girlfriend left their home in tears. Even Doudou, who was squatting at the door, looked at the back of her departure with tears in her eyes.

It seems to know everything.

Later, my girlfriend went to Doudou several times and asked my son to take Doudou downstairs to see him.

Later, his girlfriend returned his red horse six.

08

Her son's pain and sinking made her rolling in the deep. She feels that everything that happened to her son today is his fault, including her.

She hates him and herself.

She even thinks that if she can swallow her pride and wait until her son gets divorced after the college entrance examination, her son's life may be different.

Life, there is no if.

For several years, she has been immersed in deep remorse and deep anxiety, until today-she signed a house purchase contract.

She worked all her life to get someone by accident. Once she had unlimited scenery, in the end, the bamboo basket drew water with a sieve. And this house, it's a breeze.

What belongs to you is always yours; Not yours. If you get it, you will lose it eventually.

Thank God, thank your parents!

From tomorrow on, she won't have to blame herself so much.

From tomorrow on, she need not worry so much.

This house is her compensation for her son and the guarantee for his future life. It doesn't matter even if his stock can't support him.

Thought of here, her heart finally steadfast, mind also feel open up.

Let my son walk the rest of the way. Stock trading is his choice, and whether to get married or not will also be his choice. He has the right to decide how to get along with the world. As long as he is happy.

All she needs to do is accompany her silently.

She was suddenly moved by some inexplicable feelings.

Bright and warm lights are like stars and the sea; Like to accompany, like to wait; Like the light in her son's eyes and the fireworks in her heart.

An ever-burning fire of hope.

09

He is a generous man, generous to others and himself, and kind-hearted. Now as long as he makes money, he buys things for his family. He bought clothes for his father, gave red envelopes to his grandparents and bought her a lot of delicious food.

Perhaps, he wants to be recognized by everyone in this way.

Every summer, after a wave of important operations, he will fly to the Hilton Hotel in Yalong Bay, Hainan for a few days. He said it made him relax. The boundless sea and gentle sea breeze can eliminate his fatigue after fighting in the stock market.

This is the hotel where he and his girlfriend once stayed, also in summer.

Perhaps, he wants to remember and pay homage to his lost youth and love in this way.

As for her, she is as calm as water now, waiting for her son and Doudou every day, living the most dull life and being as sweet as she likes.

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