I met 18 years old. When I met him, it was clear that he was not a heartless gangster. He is in the underworld business, never dealing drugs, nor bullying the weak. He only manages a few entertainment venues and raises a group of younger brothers.
18 birthday, my classmates and I celebrated in his nightclub. The first time I drank, I suddenly cried for some reason. Maybe I miss my father very much. I ran to the bathroom and tried to hide my emotions with cold water. After all, everyone came to celebrate my birthday, and I shouldn't do that kind of disappointing thing.
I have been crying in the bathroom, using the action of washing my face to cover up my uncontrollable tears. However, Lao Zhang happened to come. Maybe he thought I was bullied at the meeting and asked me if I needed help. I quickly said no, just drunk. Then Lao Zhang asked me how much I had drunk, and I said almost one bottle.
However, he smiled, so he handed me a tissue and asked, "How old are you?"
I was angry and obviously laughed at me. I replied stiffly, "I'm sorry, I'm an adult today." Then I went back to the private room. Soon after coming back, the waiter brought a fruit bowl and a birthday cake. I instantly realized that it must be the man I met in the bathroom. I have always remembered him since then.
Since then, I have continued my campus life, and the college entrance examination is almost over. I applied to a key local university. After the intense college entrance examination, there were many class reunions, but the alcohol consumption did not increase much.
One day, Xiu Xiu, a classmate, was going to celebrate his birthday. Everyone suggested going to Lao Zhang's nightclub, because there were cakes and fruit bowls for his birthday.
However, my heart thumped because I knew very well that it was just a gift from Lao Zhang. But I still have some expectations, because I really want to thank him in person. As a result, I still didn't meet Lao Zhang that day, and there was definitely no fruit bowl and cake. After the party, we went home in twos and threes.
Jaco and I went all the way home. He chased me for three years in high school, but I never agreed. My reason is that he is too naive. But my classmates think I am melodramatic, because I go to school early, my classmates are older than me, and Jaco is three years older than me. However, I also said that he was naive and obviously unconvincing.
In fact, my classmates don't know my family situation either. My father is away from home all the year round. I am a precocious sister who lacks fatherly love. My mother is an interpreter, and she goes abroad with her leaders all the year round, so I played the role of mother in front of my younger brother. This special growing environment led me to like people like Lao Zhang.
Jaco and I were about to stop a taxi that day when Lao Zhang got off a car. I recognized him. He looked serious that day and three people followed him. I was still a little scared and didn't dare to thank him in person as planned. I think he may have forgotten me.
It was past midnight at that time, and Lao Zhang came up to me fiercely. When he saw me, his first sentence was "Aren't you afraid to go back and get beaten?" This sentence surprised Jaco and me. Jaco may think he is my father, but I never understood why he asked me this question.
Later, Lao Zhang pulled me to the car and drove away directly, leaving Jaco standing there in a daze, just standing there watching Lao Zhang drive away without saying anything.
It took me a long time to react in the car, worrying that he was a bad guy. I asked, "Where are you taking me?" Lao Zhang also deliberately smiled and said, "At an early age, I turned my face into this ghost when I went to any nightclub." I'm scared now. If I'm really a bad person, it's too late. The car is locked. "I was still scared, but looking at the direction of my family, my heart gradually settled down.
Later, I turned to the photos taken that day and saw that I did wear a ghost makeup. My eyelids are purple, my face is pink and my mouth is red. I don't look human at all.
The car drove into the community and stopped downstairs in my house. I finally lost my composure and began to remember if Lao Zhang was a relative of my family and how I knew where my family lived. But I didn't dare to say a word and followed him upstairs. At this time, I have decided that Lao Zhang is my relative.
As a result, the door opposite my house was always open, which shocked me. My family has lived in this house for 10 years. Grandpa Zhang lives opposite Grandma Qiu, but I don't know when Lao Zhang moved here.
He didn't talk nonsense either, just said, "Your grandfather Zhang is my father. Don't worry this time. " After that day, we often met. Lao Zhang dragged me to eat as soon as he saw me, and said nothing else. My brother and I didn't think much either. After all, grandpa Zhang and I have been neighbors for 10 years, so I think Lao Zhang is my brother.
Lao Zhang's parents are both civil servants. Lao Zhang went abroad after graduating from high school. After staying abroad for less than a year, I came back with a lot of money and opened the first night show in our city.
After that, each district opened one. After the night show, someone will always come to smash the venue and ask for money. Lao Zhang had to raise a group of younger brothers, and the momentum gradually increased, and the fish and shrimp did not dare to make trouble again. Lao Zhang also naturally became the boss of the underworld.
Later, I went to college to live on campus, and Lao Zhang sent a younger brother every week or sent me snacks and fruits himself. My heart is sweet, and if Lao Zhang doesn't find it, I will be reserved. After four years in college, Lao Zhang has never expressed his position.
I remember once driving a woman to bring me food, and I suddenly got angry. The next day, I agreed to the pursuit of a boy with electronic information.
When Lao Zhang came to see me, I appeared arm in arm with the boy. Lao Zhang didn't say anything, just asked me about my recent situation, cared a few words and left.
My heart was cold at that time. I thought this Lao Zhang had been helping me out of poverty for so long. Or do you think my father doesn't love me or my mother doesn't love me? I can't figure it out.
As a result, a few days later, the boy told me that he was out of character and wanted to break up. I think it's funny. We dated less than 20 days, met 10 times, and didn't meet for more than an hour. How can we see that we are incompatible?
But I want to save face, and I'm too lazy to ask you. Later, no one chased me at school, and I began to doubt my life, my face and whether I really had a personality problem.
Later, I learned that it was that boring man Lao Zhang who made the ghost. No matter how hard I forced him, I wouldn't tell him what he was doing. And I graduated so boring.
On the day of graduation ceremony, Lao Zhang came with a bunch of roses and said solemnly, "Congratulations on your graduation." I didn't answer and asked him why he sent the flowers. I wonder if this flower can't be sent casually.
He said, "Yes, I gave it to my girlfriend." I said no, and he said in no hurry or annoyance, "I have raised you for four years, and I still don't know why cannibalism is short." Hold on tight. "
Lao Zhang put the flowers in my arms, put his arm around my shoulder and said with a sigh, "I finally waited until you graduated."
Later, I learned that Grandpa Zhang gave me a death order, and he was not allowed to get his hands on me before I graduated. It's a pity that my university has been foggy for four years.
Three months after we confirmed our relationship, Lao Zhang said that his father was anxious to have grandchildren and would get married this year. I said no, I'm not legally married. Lao Zhang looks silly. You can't get married after graduation. How old are you?
I just scared him. Lao Zhang never asks my age, and I never ask him. I asked him how old he was. Lao Zhang is older than me 15 years old. He was 36 years old that year. He was shocked, too. In his concept, the gap between us is only 10 years old.
The wedding date was fixed soon, and everything was like a dream. But unexpectedly, mom and dad strongly opposed it when they knew it, and they came back from abroad to stop us from getting married.
Finally, my father threatened to die. At that time, my father was in the terminal stage of cancer. He never told me or my brother. My father said that if we kept seeing each other, he would give up the treatment.
And I can't base my love on my father's life, so I finally chose to accompany my father to go abroad for treatment.
Life may not be everything you want.
But learn to be strong no matter what happens.