Chapter 24

Chapter 24

Yu Shu caught up with the angry and aggrieved Yu Yang, hooking his neck and stuffing him into the passenger seat: "Let's go, sister will take you out for skewers."

Yu Shu took him to an old shop in the county town and ordered a dozen beers and many meat skewers.Gét latest novel chapters on nov(e)lbj/n(.)c/om

Yu Yang was still sulking with a black face at first, but after half a bottle of beer, he started crying and complaining to Yu Shu.

"Mom these past few years, her temper has become more and more eccentric, irritable, flying into a rage over the slightest thing, raising her hand to hit, lifting her foot to kick..."

"Uh-huh, have a lamb skewer." While agreeing, Yu Shu handed him a skewer.

"Last time I broke a bowl, she kicked my shin and left a bruise that took a month to fade."

"Don't be angry, have another bottle, are you drunk? Do you want Coke instead?"

Yu Yang was about to flip the table: "Are you even listening to me! Can't you... comfort me a little..."

Yu Shu sighed, rubbing the top of his head: "I don't know how to comfort you. Or I could double your New Year's money?"

"You don't understand... she doesn't hit you..." Yu Yang drooped his head dejectedly like a lame stray dog, head down, full of sorrow.

Yu Shu smiled bitterly and said softly: "How could I not understand?"

She pulled open her collar to show him the scar on her left shoulder, the burn scar almost covered half of her shoulder, with a lot of fibrous tissue hyperplasia, forming a hard, irregularly shaped scar. It was as if there was a twisted centipede under the thin skin.

Ugly and hideous.

Yu Shu never wore sleeveless tops, let alone bare her shoulders in front of Yu Yang. This was the first time Yu Yang saw the scar.

"How...did you get it?"

Yu Shu shrugged: "Scalded by porridge."

Yu Shu hung up her phone and buried herself in bedding. She thought she would cry, but her eyes remained dry despite the soreness.

“She seemed so certain at that time that I even started to doubt my own memory.” Yu Shu's gaze fell on a neatly cut piece of green onion topping on the skewer, it was cut more neatly than the other pieces.

“I don’t know if she really misremembered or was trying to convince herself. I'm too lazy to figure it out.”

When young she was obsessed with determining right and wrong. Later she became fixated on guessing truth and lies. Upon growing up, it turned into numbness. Truth and lies, right and wrong were not the final questions of a math exam, racking your brains to find the right answer would not give you extra points or change your score. The answer has no substantive meaning for reality, if you say it’s right then it’s right, if you say it’s true then it’s true.

Being casual and muddled makes things much easier.

Parents make mistakes in their first time parenting, just as children make mistakes in their first time being children.

“Many times, I wished Mrs. Ye was a villain. A son preference discriminator who would even sell her children, so I could leave home without hesitation, never to return. But she gave us two everything she could. "

"Although lacking due to her education and experience, it was still the best she could offer."

I’ve hated her, resented her, been disgusted by her, but I’ve always loved her.

We can’t choose our relatives; we can only keep compromising.

Tears rolled down Yu Yang's flushed face after downing another cup.

"Yo, which handsome boy is crying so sadly?" Yu Shu liked to tease him when he cried. She pinched his chin in a not so serious manner. "So pitiful, it hurts Big Sis so much to see you like this!"

"Get lost! Or I'll punch you!" Yu Yang's voice still carried a sob. His threat lacked any deterrence.

After teasing him for a while, Yu Shu waited for Yu Yang to settle down before imparting her wisdom on dealing with Mrs. Ye.

When to coax, when to whine, when not to disturb her...

One after another, all hard-earned lessons summarized from bloody experiences.