How to Build a Harmonious Family

"Teng Xu...?"

Xia Junyan was stunned for a moment, she wanted to keep him but it was too late, and she didn't dare to leave the child behind to chase, finally she could only sigh, bent over and hugged Teng Yunran who was crying on the ground.

The little girl is just growing up, and because of her greedy mouth and love to eat, she is quite a bit bigger than her peers, and she has a lot of weight.Xia Junyan almost lost her grip when she hugged her, thinking that she has been too unhealthy recently, making her physically weak, maybe it would be better to abstain from sexual intercourse for a while.

"Good girl, can I show you the wound?" Xia Junyan patted the girl's back lightly, hugged her and walked into the store, trying to coax her with delicious food, "Didn't you just say you wanted to eat beef skewers?" ? May I give you something?"

Teng Yunran was still crying, and while crying, she grabbed Xia Junyan's clothes and loudly accused her brother who caused her to fall, saying that his brother was a big villain who deliberately bullied her.

The girl and her brother are two completely different personalities. Teng Xu is delicate and sensitive, even fragile and vulnerable, but Teng Yunran is more intuitive and frank in terms of emotional feeling and communication.Just like the age difference between the two, they are not like a brother and sister at all.But in the past few months, they have indeed become a pair of real brothers and sisters. This is not easy, and Xia Junyan sees it all.

The child was ignorant of the world, and only felt that he was being bullied by his brother, but Xia Junyan knew that something must have happened in the short 10 minutes when Teng Xu came home just now, and most of it was related to Teng Yunran.

Teng Xu didn't seem to be a very open-minded person, Xia Junyan was worried that he would commit suicide like he did in high school, so he could only buy delicious food for Teng Yunran and send her home in a hurry.He made several phone calls and asked about Teng Xu's situation on WeChat, but Teng Xu didn't reply after sending out his address.

Teng Xu's house is in a relatively old community, and the outer layer of the building has shown some traces of time.Xia Junyan led Teng Yunran upstairs and came to the door of the house. She was about to ring the doorbell, but she heard a man and a woman arguing through the door.The content of the quarrel was related to Teng Xu. Basically, the husband and wife were shirking each other's responsibilities, and both believed that the secret was revealed to be the fault of the other party.

Xia Junyan doesn't know what the secret they are talking about is, but it can't be a good thing after all.

Teng Yunran obviously heard the quarrel, but she couldn't understand what her parents were arguing about, she just held Xia Junyan's finger uneasily: "Why are parents arguing..."

Xia Junyan didn't want her to cry anymore, so she coaxed her, "Only couples who are in a good relationship quarrel."

Teng Yunran nodded with a half understanding.

Xia Junyan patted her head, raised her hand and rang the doorbell.

The quarrel inside stopped, and Mother Teng raised her voice and asked, "Who—"

Teng Yunran shouted loudly: "Mom! I'm back!"

"Yunran? Where's your brother..." Mother Teng opened the door in a hurry, and she was taken aback when she saw a strange man with a gentle temperament standing beside her daughter, "Excuse me, are you...?"

Xia Junyan exchanged the child to her mother, and explained: "Hello, I am Teng Xu's friend, and he asked me to send Yunran back."

"Okay, okay...thank you." Mother Teng waved her hand to signal Teng Yunran to go back to her room, then smiled apologetically at Xia Junyan, "I'm really sorry, we have a little problem at home, it's not very convenient to entertain guests now, We will find an opportunity to thank you later.”

Obviously an attitude of wanting to see off guests.

But Xia Junyan didn't intend to leave easily. The reason why Teng Xu became such a character and what happened today must have something to do with his parents.Now that they are all here, Xia Junyan intends to seize this opportunity to chat with Teng's parents and Teng's mother, at least to know why Teng Xu escaped.

Mother Teng saw that Xia Junyan didn't seem to have any intention of leaving, so she said, "If you have nothing else to do..."

"I'm sorry." Xia Junyan showed a relatively tough attitude, and it was still a stranger she had never met before, "I want to talk to you about Teng Xu, can I?"

Mother Teng frowned: "I'm sorry, it's really inconvenient today." Mother Teng didn't want to talk about Teng Xu with outsiders, she was a very conservative woman, and some things were difficult for her to talk about.

But Xia Junyan didn't intend to give up, so she lowered her voice and asked, "Did you know that he thought about committing suicide when he was in high school?"

Mother Teng raised her face in shock.

Xia Junyan also guessed that most of them didn't know about this matter, otherwise they wouldn't have left Teng Xu alone to quarrel at home at this time.

Mother Teng asked her husband to stay at home to look after the children, and went out with Xia Junyan.

There is a gazebo in the green belt behind the building, and few people come here in winter.But Mother Teng still seemed not at ease. After sitting down on the stone bench, she still looked around nervously, for fear that someone passing by would overhear their conversation.

"Sorry, I might have been too abrupt just now, let me explain to you." Xia Junyan softened her voice, trying to make herself look more friendly, "I am a pediatrician, and I have seen a doctor for Yunran before. That's why I met Teng Xu. We can be considered friends with him now."

The identity of the doctor was explained in the hope that Teng's mother could believe what he said.

"It was only after I got to know him that I discovered that the high school student I saw on the bank of Fujiang four years ago was Teng Xu who wanted to jump into the river." Xia Junyan continued, "I don't know the reason, and Teng Xu didn't tell But I have made some conjectures, and now I want to confirm them to you."

Mother Teng clenched her hands restlessly on the stone table: "I, I didn't even know that he wanted to commit suicide, how could I know why he wanted to commit suicide..."

Xia Junyan shook her head and said, "Let me ask you a question first."

"Excuse me, why did you and your husband decide to give birth to Yunran?"

In the past few years of working in the pediatric ward, Xia Junyan has actually seen many middle-aged couples bring a very young child to see the doctor. Most of these families already have an older child who is a daughter. , and the second child is often a boy.The reason Xia Junyan also wanted to know was that the couple valued sons over daughters, so once the policy was changed, they rushed to fight for a second child, even if the woman had to take the huge risk of having children at an advanced age.

But the situation of the Teng family is very "abnormal". They already have a grown-up son like Teng Xu, but they also gave birth to a young daughter.Before, Xia Junyan wondered if it was possible that Teng Xu's parents didn't like boys but preferred girls, so they wanted to satisfy their wish to raise their daughter, but when he came to Teng Xu's house tonight and saw the living conditions of the family, he felt that this was the case. The explanation does not seem to make sense.Now that the cost of raising children is getting higher and higher, it is not easy to raise a child. The Teng family's family background is mediocre, so it is obviously not suitable for raising another child, so Xia Junyan asked why they gave birth to Teng Yunran—even if they had to risk their advanced age The risk of giving birth, even if it will bring a great financial burden to the whole family, even... will be resisted and resisted by Teng Xu.

Xia Junyan has an intuition that the crux of the matter should lie in this question, and he needs to know the answer.

Hearing Xia Junyan's question, Teng's mother obviously dodged her eyes.She looked away from Xia Junyan's face, stared at her hands a little dullly, hesitated for a while, and then replied: "I just... like my daughter, and I just want to have another one, isn't that normal. "

"However, the two of you should also want to get Teng Xu, surely you don't want to?"

Mother Teng stopped talking.

Xia Junyan was a little disappointed and a little angry. He thought that there would be no effective communication in the future.Instead of wasting time with Teng's mother here, it's better to use this time to find Teng Xu.

"Well, since you don't want to say it, forget it." Xia Junyan stood up, "Before I leave, let me say one more thing. As parents, you shouldn't treat your children like this."

"I'm not just talking about Teng Xu, I'm also talking about Yunran. If you and your husband gave birth to her for some unspeakable reasons, it would be cruel to her."

After Xia Junyan finished speaking, she left directly from the community.

Suddenly, snow began to fall in the night sky, but luckily it wasn't too big.

He thought that it would take a while to find Teng Xu, so he first sent a message to Tang Yingxuan saying that he had something to do at the last minute, and he would be back very late, telling Tang Yingxuan not to wait any longer.

Tang Yingxuan quickly replied "Yes", and after ten seconds later said: If there is anything I can help, please let me know.

Another ten seconds later: Yin Luxiao is still sick, and he misses you very much, so come back soon.

But when the last two were sent out, Xia Junyan had already put away her phone and didn't see it.If he saw it, he might be able to sense Tang Yingxuan's strangeness.

Xia Junyan always felt that Teng Xu should not have gone too far.

When Teng Xu was disheartened four years ago, he went to the Fujiang River, and he might be in that place now.

He passed through the noisy night market, ran under the darkness, and ran towards the river bank across the street.

When the weather is still warm, there are always many people on the Fujiang River, especially at night. On the embankment and in the park, there are often adults playing with children, and there are also couples dating here, but in winter, the river is cold and cold, so there is no People are willing to come here, even the aunts dancing in the square are not there, and the cold white street lights fall on the empty river bank road, which looks very deserted.

Xia Junyan looked and walked along the bank of the river, and finally found the place four years ago based on her memory.

Sure enough, Teng Xu stood there, his thin and lonely back gradually overlapped with the lonely and thinking boy in his memory.

Xia Junyan suddenly realized that perhaps Teng Xu hadn't changed in any way over the years.He is more cheerful than at the beginning, probably because the relationship with his sister has eased, or because he has found some new support, but it does not mean that the deepest scar in Teng Xu's heart has healed.

People can barely survive with a little bit of hope in despair, just like Ning Shen was better than him back then.

"Teng Xu...!"

The moment she spotted Teng Xu's figure, Xia Junyan immediately yelled out, then hurried down the steps by the river bank, and grabbed Teng Xu's arm.

In short, as Teng Xu's friend, it is impossible for him to watch Teng Xu seek death.

"Let me say it first." Xia Junyan ran in a hurry just now, and she was still a little breathless when she spoke, "I will never let go, if you want to dance, you can only pull me to dance together, I can't swim, if I die, it will be all your fault !"

After saying this, Xia Junyan quickly conceived many possibilities in her mind, such as whether Teng Xu would try to break free from him, or really pull him to dance Fujiang together, or he might not respond and would not talk to him.

But Teng Xu's reaction was not what Xia Junyan imagined.

He didn't expect that after he said those preposterous words, Teng Xu actually laughed, and then said softly: "Don't worry, I won't seek death again. Because I have already found a reason to support me to continue living." .”

The stone in Xia Junyan's heart fell to the ground, and just as she was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she heard Teng Xu say again——

"Do you know? Actually, I have someone I like."

"That person is you."

The completely inappropriate confession made Xia Junyan completely stunned.

He didn't realize how things turned out like this, and why he was suddenly confessed by Teng Xu.Originally, according to his expectation, at this moment, he should be pulling each other with Teng Xu to prevent the stimulated Teng Xu from committing suicide.

Why was it confessed?what's the situation?

Xia Junyan was stunned for a moment, and then loosened her hands, but Teng Xu turned her back - the other party grabbed his wrist and pulled him closer to him, burying his head on the side of his neck.

"I'm sorry..." Teng Xu whispered, "Can, can you let me hug you?"

There was a bit of crying in his voice, which made Xia Junyan not know how to refuse, nor did he dare to refuse easily.

The skin on the side of the neck touched a tiny bit of warm fluid.

"Are you ok?"

"Not very good……"

"..."

"I want to talk to you, can you listen to me...? Just listen."

"……it is good."

"Thank you."

"Speak slowly, don't worry, I will listen to you carefully."

Xia Junyan felt that she seemed to understand Teng Xu's thoughts a little bit. Perhaps there were some things that Teng Xu had been alone for too long, so after experiencing shock and stimulation, he wanted to confide his heart to others.

Xia Junyan understands this feeling and understands it.Although, Teng Xu's confession gave him a headache and embarrassment.

"When I went home to pick up my clothes, I heard my parents talking about me and Yunran. Just now I stood here alone and thought about it for a long time, and I finally figured out what was going on."

"In high school, I had a girlfriend, but one day I realized that I couldn't handle girls. She slapped me and kicked me out. I was devastated, and I was always trying Being a gregarious person, I have been pretending and trying to force myself. I didn’t expect that I was different from everyone from the very beginning. I was afraid that she would tell the story, and I was afraid that my classmates and family would know that I was a pervert who liked men. , I was afraid that everyone would disagree with me and hate me for leaving me, so I didn't think about it for a while, but thought of dying."

"You reminded me that day that my family would worry about me, which gave me a little hope." Teng Xu said, tightening Xia Junyan's clothes with his hands, "When I got home, I saw that my parents were anxious. Looking for me, my mother was so anxious that she cried, and I thought, if I’m still alive, at least my parents still love me. But it didn’t take long for them to change.”

"Now that I think about it... probably because they discovered the things I downloaded on the computer in order to understand my sexuality. They knew that I was gay at that time, and they thought I was an abnormal child, so they decided to give birth. My sister." Teng Xu sniffed, and laughed a little self-deprecatingly, "At first, I still couldn't figure it out, and I didn't understand why they had to give birth to Yunran, but now I finally figured it out."

"It turns out that they have been so indifferent to me these years because I am not normal."

"It turned out that Yunran was born as my substitute in order to fulfill their desire to 'have a normal child'."

"When I think about this, I feel a little unable to face her."

"But, but..." Teng Xu tightened his arms and wrapped Xia Junyan tightly in his arms, as if he was holding on to a life-saving straw, "Fortunately, you are still here, thank you..."

Teng Xu hugged her so hard that Xia Junyan could hardly breathe.He analyzed the meaning of Teng Xu's words with some trepidation, and felt that he seemed to be pushed into a dilemma again.

Another choice!