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"I came back this time to tell you that I'm going abroad,"I said calmly.
"What about Mom and Dad then?"My elder sister and younger sister were anxious.
"There are three of us.Even if I don't care about Mom and Dad's partiality and am willing to suffer a little,I can only take care of one elderly person.Mom is used to taking care of you all on weekdays.Then I'll take Dad,who isn't of much use,away with me.Anyway,I don't need him to do anything,"I said lightly.
My elder sister and younger sister didn't know how to refute me for a moment.My mother smashed things in the house noisily.
Now that she wasn't in good health,I was going to take my father away from her,separating them as a couple.
She said that I not only wanted money but also her life.
She said that she had never been partial and that it was me who didn't appreciate her kindness.
I thought she was talking about that time.
I had just graduated from school and worked in the same area as my elder sister.She started work a little earlier than me.
My mother would get up before dawn and drive her to work,regardless of the weather.
She was afraid that my elder sister would be looked down upon by her colleagues if she rode a bike and that she would get wet and cold in the rain.
And I traveled back and forth twenty kilometers every day relying on a second-hand bicycle.
My internship salary was only 1,800 dollars a month,and I couldn't even afford an electric bike.
In the heavy rain,I was soaked all over.I deliberately changed my wet clothes in my mother's room,but she pretended not to see and didn't ask anything.
I finally couldn't help but protest.My mother got angry and deliberately woke me up a little after five o'clock in the morning and dragged me into the car.
In the freezing winter,I shivered at the gate of my unit for more than an hour before the door opened.On the second and third days,she continued to do this until I fell ill and was hospitalized.
It took me more than a month to recover after going back and forth.I told her not to send me anymore and repeatedly emphasized that it was my own request.
I also said that if she said she was partial again,I would tear my own mouth.
When I said she was partial,she always liked to say earnestly that even the fingers of one hand are of different lengths and that both the palm and the back of the hand are flesh.
Yes,so I was always the short finger,the flesh on the back of the hand.
My elder sister interrupted my memories."Mom and Dad must not be separated.If you have the ability,take them both away,"she said.
"Yes,take them both away,"my younger sister echoed.
"Why?"I asked.
"Just because Mom and Dad gave birth to you and raised you—"My elder sister pointed at my nose and said.
"What,were you born out of a stone?Or did you grow up eating pig feed?"
With a slap,I received a hard slap on the face.My head was buzzing.
My mother shook her numb palm.
I smiled,and the tears that were welling up were forced back.Those weren't tears of sadness.They were just a natural reaction caused by the physical pain.
"I'm going to make you show some filial piety today."
My mother went back to the room to pack her luggage and said that she would go wherever I went.In the future,she would just pester me.
As long as I wasn't afraid of being condemned for driving her away.
So far,most of my plan had been completed.All I ever wanted was fairness,even just once.
"The quality of a great personality mainly lies in the word'sincerity.'"
My mother had always been like this,not sincere to me and not sincere to herself either.She didn't want to openly admit that she wanted to get back the investment return of the kindness of raising me,and she also didn't want to admit that she had a prejudice against me.
She clearly didn't love me that much.
