Capítulo 117: Absurd
In the house, Su Qiaoxiu lifted the coarse linen curtain that divided the room into two halves, and came to her parents' bed with a nervous look. She lowered her head and stirred her hands constantly. Her heart was so nervous that it almost jumped out of her throat. She called out weakly, "Dad and Mom."
Old man Su, who was tucking in the quilt for his wife, paused, his eyes wide open with disbelief. Mrs.Su, who also heard her daughter's voice, opened her closed eyes and sat out from the quilt regardless of her weak body.
She pushed the dazed old man away and looked towards the place where the sound came from. Then, there were heart-wrenching dry coughs, and she pointed at Su Qiaoxiu with trembling fingers.
Old Man Su was no longer in shock at this moment. He quickly poured a bowl of water from the table outside the curtain and brought it in, and fed it to his wife. The coughing eased and the dryness and itchiness in her throat finally subsided.
Su Qiaoxiu was also extremely frightened and took two steps back in disbelief. In a short period of time, she realized that her mother had aged very much. Although she had white hair before, now it was almost completely white and her face looked sick. And her reaction to seeing her was so big. Su Qiaoxiu was so frightened that she didn't know what to do. She wanted to help but was afraid.
After drinking the water, Mrs.Su patted her chest to calm herself down, her eyes fixed on her daughter.
"Wife, don't be anxious, your body..." Old Man Su knew what his wife was thinking, and hurried to persuade her, but he was interrupted before he could finish his words.
"I'm fine, don't worry." The voice was slightly panting and very weak.
"Xiu Xiu, come here." Mrs.Su took a deep breath and said calmly to her daughter.
Such a mother made Su Qiaoxiu feel scared. In the past, when she was willful and did something wrong, her mother would not be so calm. Although she loved her, she would point at her forehead and scold her.
"Mom..." She looked at her mother on the bed uneasily.
"Come here." The voice was still flat, but the unyielding look in her eyes was very obvious.
Su Qiaoxiu moved closer to her mother's bedside step by step. When she came back, she had already expected that her parents would be very angry, but she did not expect her mother's reaction to be like this. Su Qiaoxiu's feeling of uneasiness was growing stronger and stronger, and she felt vaguely that she had deeply hurt her parents' hearts.
"Mom, I was wrong, I..." Su Qiaoxiu, who was standing beside the bed, apologized with red eyes.
Before she could finish her words, she was greeted with a hard slap in the face, and her face tilted to the other side. It hurts, it hurts so much. Su Qiaoxiu, who had never been slapped before, had no idea that a slap could hurt so much. In a split second, she felt her cheek swelling up, and then another hard slap fell on her. Su Qiaoxiu was stunned for a moment, and only tears kept dripping like beads that had broken off the string.
She thought of many situations, and also thought that her mother would punish and beat her, but she never thought that her mother would directly slap her in the face, slap her twice.
"Wife" Old Man Su quickly supported his old wife.
The two slaps had exhausted all of Mrs.Su's strength. She leaned on the old man, panting, and looked at her daughter with a broken heart.
"It's not you who is wrong, it's me who is wrong, it's my fault as a mother." She said this and slapped herself in the face with her hand. She really regretted it. It is said that if a child is not well disciplined, it is the fault of the father. The reason why her daughter is so bold now is because she, as a mother, did not teach her well. Mrs.Su started crying.
Fortunately, she was already weak and her strength had been almost used up by those two slaps, so she had no strength left when hit herself.
Old Man Su grabbed his wife's hand with heartache, "What are you doing? The doctor said you can't get angry," Old Man Su growled. Then he looked at his shocked daughter and said, "You have done something wrong. Look how angry your mother is. You want to kill her!"
The old man Su's words were very serious. Su Qiaoxiu was so frightened that she almost fell to the ground. She shouted "Dad" with disbelief in her eyes. Dad had never said a harsh word to her. She had thought that Dad might be able to speak well of her, but the look in his eyes when he looked at her was stern and disappointed like never before. Such parents are too strange. Thinking of the two slaps just now and her father's strange eyes, Su Qiaoxiu felt a little indignant.
Didn't she just take the money and leave home for a few days? Are they still the parents who loved her before?
"Dad? Why don't you kneel down and tell me what you have done these days? And where is the money?" Old Man Su looked at his daughter sternly.
Su Qiaoxiao was so frightened after seeing her father like this that she immediately knelt on the ground. At this moment, she dared not think about anything else and just wanted to calm her parents' anger as soon as possible.
"Dad, Mom, I was wrong, I was really wrong. I was too willful, but I really had my reasons. Please forgive me. I will never dare to do it again." Su Qiaoxiu knelt down and cried bitterly.
"Is there a reason? You hardly leave the house except when delivering embroidery. Even if your mother doesn't have time to go, your sisters-in-law will accompany you. What could possibly happen to you?"
"Okay, I want to hear what could have made you steal the money from home and run away. That was the money your brother just earned for the exam. I didn't expect that you would be so brave." Mrs. Su glared at her daughter.
After relieving herself from exhaustion, her body felt a little better, but she was still weak after being sick for so many days. After saying these words, Mrs. Su began to breathe heavily again.
"Mom, don't be angry, it's all my fault. Okay, I'll tell you and Dad everything." She was also feeling resentful towards her own parents. Seeing her mother having difficulty breathing, Su Qiaoxiu looked at her worriedly and spoke quickly.
Seeing that their daughter's attitude was still good, Mrs. Su and Old Man Su finally looked a little better.
"Say," Old Man Su began to speak. He really couldn't imagine what could have happened to his daughter that would make her run away from home with the family's money.
As for eloping or being abducted by a man, Old Man Su had never thought about it, mainly because his daughter did not have the opportunity to come into contact with other men.
Su Qiaoxiu wiped the tears from her face, took a breath and slowly said, "Dad, Mom, I have never told you that my daughter has had the same continuous dream every day since more than a month ago, and it has been like this every day without interruption. The things in the dream were so real that this daughter thought she was a participant in it. She couldn't figure out whether it was a dream or not, and she didn't know what was wrong. It was as if she was possessed, so she rented a cart and planned to go to the place where the dream happened. If it is true, it can completely change our family. I thought that if it is true, not only can I get back the money I took, but I can also get back exactly what I wanted. I really didn't think of delaying my brother's exam.
...Mom and Dad, you must believe that everything I said is true. Although this daughter is willful, she has never lied. You know this." Su Qiaoxiu sobbed and told her parents everything, although she knew it was hard to believe.
Mrs. Su and the old man looked at each other. They didn't expect to hear this. They thought of many reasons in their minds, but they never thought that the culprit of the incident would be because of a fictional and vague dream. The first feeling was that it was ridiculous and that their daughter was lying to them. However, looking at her serious face, it didn't seem like she was lying. As she said, although the child was usually willful, she had never lied.
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