Chapter 70
Chapter 68
Listening to Gu Lan’s words, Xia Chiu wanted to applaud.
She seemed to see the sparkling Gu Lan in the future, the Gu Lan who supported half of the original painting design, proud and ostentatious.
She was in a daze and understood the meaning of her coming back, not only to find and help Jianghuai, but also to make her better and deeper to meet all the shiny people she had ever met.
Listening to Gu Lan’s words, Xia Chiu felt passionate. She felt that Gu Lan was the heroine of a comic. At this time, everyone should be convinced of her dream. Gu’s mother should immediately agree to her, and then the mother and daughter cried.
However, life is never a story. When Xia Chiu Chiu was excited, Gu’s mother suddenly raised her hand and slapped her over.
The whole audience was shocked. Gu Lan was slapped by the slap, and fortunately Xia Chiu subconsciously stepped forward to support her.
Xia Chiu said angrily: “You…”
“What do you know! What are you talking about!” Gu’s mother cried out hysterically: “What dream! What do you like! Can’t you just take a safe and stable road! You take a college entrance exam and study hard? , Can’t you be a civil servant?”
“Those who engage in art, don’t I know? The poor die from the poor, the rich die from the rich. I don’t need you to be so talented, I don’t need you to get ahead, I just want you to be safe, can’t you?”
“I can’t take it anymore…” Mother Gu raised her hand, covering her face, her tears falling: “Don’t you know what’s going on with your dad? I am alone, raising him and raising you. I am. I’ve been wandering all my life. I’ve been ups and downs in my life, and I haven’t had a stable day. Your dad used to talk to me about dreams and entrepreneurship. I’ve been with him for the rest of my life! I beg you Lan,” she waved her hands: “I can’t stand it anymore, I really can’t stand a little risk.”
“What if you can’t get into college? What if you can’t find a job when you come out? What if you are not famous? What if you can’t make money?”
“You said you don’t have to worry about me, Xiaolan, that’s a child’s talk. If you really have anything, I am a mother, how can it be ignored?”
Mother Gu raised her head with tears in her face and pleaded: “Don’t cause me trouble, okay?”
Gu Lan didn’t speak, she was trembling and panicking.
She originally thought that after signing the contract and getting the money, she would be able to prove her ability when she actually got the money.
For a conservative person like her mother, if you don’t see money, you won’t believe that she can make money by painting, but only think that the contract is a liar and a scam.
She had planned well, but Gu’s mother suddenly appeared and caught her off guard.
She struggled to say: “Mom, I have signed a publishing contract…”
“If you paint again, I will die!”
Mother Gu changed her face abruptly, and rushed towards the window. Everyone was startled by this action, and Zhang Xu hurriedly said: “Mrs. Gu, calm down! If you have anything to discuss, you have something to say to Gu Lan…”
Mother Gu was already sitting by the window at this time, her mental state was obviously not right, she stared at Gu Lan, “I can’t stand your dad, and I can’t stand you anymore, Gu Lan, you Don’t want my mother, just paint if you want!”
“Mom, calm down!”
Gu Lan anxiously said: “You come down, I will listen to you, I will listen to you! Come down!”
“You said, you don’t draw anymore.”
Mother Gu stared at her stubbornly, and more and more people watched over. Gu Lan quickly nodded: “I’m not painting anymore, come down…”
“You give me the contract.”
Mother Gu stared at the contract in her hand. Gu Lan trembled and handed it over. When she was more than one meter away from her mother, Gu mother stretched out her hand and shouted sharply: “Stop! Pass it to me!”
Gu Lan didn’t dare to disobey, she blushed, looked at her mother, and handed over the contract.
Mother Gu grabbed the contract and tore it clean when she raised her hand. Pointing to the surrounding sketches and painting tools, he said, “Tear those paintings to me, and everything will be broken for me!”
Gu Lan was stunned, and Xia Chuchu couldn’t stand it anymore. These words were their next update. Xia Chuchu knew how long Gu Lan had painted and worked hard. She said anxiously: “Auntie, if it’s about money…”
“You killed her!”
Mother Gu made a sharp voice and pointed to Xia Chuo and said, “My daughter is so good, she has always been obedient, how could she have these thoughts? It’s you, you guys have led to her damage!”
“Mrs. Gu how do you talk?”
Seeing the other party accusing her of her daughter, He Linlin was immediately unhappy. She stepped forward and said, “It’s a pity that your daughter is so talented and doesn’t learn to paint. We tweeted that this is a good deed. If you don’t appreciate it, just forget it, and what do you scold her for? By the way, isn’t it a matter of money? The big deal is that we will give Gu Lan the money to go to school in the future.”
“What are you giving!”
Mother Gu became excited: “Can you give her a safe and stable life? I want her to be a civil servant! I don’t want her to do business like you guys. It’s precarious, and there will be upsets and no downs!”
He Linlin got excited when she was scolded to her head, and she stepped forward to think about theory. Yang Wei and Xia Chiu hurriedly pulled He Linlin, Shen Sui also came up to persuade, Gu’s mother’s eyes fell on Gu Lan: “Tear! Are you still thinking about painting, do you want to kill me?! You want me Just stand up when you die, and I don’t want to live anymore!”
With that said, Mother Gu stood up, as if she was about to jump off. Gu Lan was about to split her list and screamed, “I’m not drawing anymore!”
Gu’s mother paused and turned to look at her.
Gu Lan gritted her teeth, turned around in pain, and smashed the drawing tool to the ground, then grabbed the stacks of drawing papers and desperately tore them apart.
She tore and cried, not knowing whether to tell Mother Gu or herself, she shouted louder and louder: “I won’t paint anymore! I won’t paint anymore!”
Everyone was shocked by her.
Gu’s mother looked at her quietly, with pity in her eyes.
After the tearing was over, Gu Lan finally couldn’t hold it, crouched down, covering her face, crying bitterly, “I won’t paint anymore…I won’t paint anymore…”
“too difficult…”
“Drawing is too difficult…”
Xia Chiu looked at Gu Lan blankly, and it took a long time to react.
She hesitated and stepped forward, slowly squatting down, putting her hand on Gu Lan’s shoulder.
However, Gu Lan didn’t say a word, she was just crying, crying loudly with every single cry.
Crying on Xia Chiu Chiu’s body, her heart was piercing.
Suddenly, Xia Chiu Chiu’s weakness rushed all over her body. It was always difficult for others to intervene in their lives, and some roads were destined to go on alone.
Zhang Xu and several teachers stared at Gu’s mother in a daze, rushed up and pulled her down from the window sill.
Mother Gu looked at Gu Lan, who was squatting on the ground and crying, her face stiff, and she said coldly: “If you have enough crying, stand up and go home. I have to go back and cook for your dad.”
Gu Lan’s crying became quieter when she heard this. Gu’s mother turned her head and said to Zhang Xu some polite words to ensure that Gu Lan would not be late or leave early in the future.
At this moment, what does Zhang Xu care about Gu Lan being late and leaving early? He just wanted to quickly send Gu’s mother away. Everyone knows that Gu’s mental state is not stable.
A woman who supports a family alone, she has long been on the verge of collapse.
Gu Lan’s cry slowly stopped. She squatted on the ground for a while, wiped away her tears, and Xia Chiu helped to stand up.
Mother Gu saw her standing up, stiffly said “Let’s go”, then turned and left.
Gu Lan nodded and followed her mother. Xia Chiu Chiu and Yang Wei hurried to catch up. Xia Chiu Chiu anxiously said: “Gu Lan, I will accompany you back.”
Gu Lan didn’t speak, she stopped and turned to look at her.
Her eyes were cold, calm, desperate and lifeless. It is as if Xia Chiu’s home that Xia Chiu has peeped at a distance, is cold all year round, and there is no light.
She looked at her quietly, with words coiling between her lips like a poisonous snake.
She actually didn’t want to say it, because she knew that if she did, it would just be a hurtful language. But she couldn’t suppress herself.
Why is she suffering? Why is she desperate?
Why, just because Song Zhe is unhappy, Jiang Huai’an is unhappy, she is going to be dragged into the darkness again?
She tried so hard to climb up, but for these proud sons of the emperor, it was still worthless.
Xia Chiu Chiu is still her second generation of silly, white, sweet and rich, and Yang Wei can still be her no-frills school-dominant adopted daughter.
But what about her?
Gu Lan sneered, and glanced at Yang Wei and Xia Chuo.
“Are you happy?” She couldn’t help but said, Xia Chuchu and Yang Wei were both stunned. Yang Wei frowned, “What do you mean?”
“Nothing could have happened.”
Gu Lan said calmly: “Originally, I could paint well, sign a contract, and then wait to get the money, I can go to a studio, secretly study, and when my mother finds out, I can tell her honestly that I got the money. Up.”
Gu Lan looked up at them: “Even if I can subsidize my family with money, I can find a psychiatrist for my mother. I could have done so.”
“But,” she curled up her lips, with mockery in her eyes: “Who told her?”
Who is it?
It was Xia Chiu who told Jiang Huai An.
It was Jiang Huai An or Song Zhe who told the school and asked the school to notify Gu Lan’s mother.
Everyone thought this was just an ordinary invitation to parents, but they never thought that this would be a completely different blow to Gu Lan’s shaky family.
Enough to make her mother collapse, enough to ruin her future.
Xia Chiu knew what Gu Lan meant, and even she completely agreed with Gu Lan’s meaning.
She lowered her head and said hoarsely: “I’m sorry…”
It’s her fault.
She clearly said she didn’t want to tell others, but she told Jianghuai An.
It was her fault. She knew that Jianghuai An and Song Zhe were good, and she knew that Jianghuai An did not like Gu Lan, but in her heart she always felt that Jianghuai An was soft and harmless.
It’s her fault.
With red eyes, she repeatedly said, “I’m sorry…Gu Lan…give me a chance. I will help you pay the tuition…”
Gu Lan ignored her and turned around and left. Xia Chiu Chuo caught up with her and caught her, and said in a hurry: “Gu Lan, don’t be angry, you paint well, I’ll give you money, you take it and tell mom that you earned it, I…”
“enough!”
Gu Lan yelled: “Xia Chiu Chiu, you know that I hate you the most, Song Zhe, Jiang Huai’an, do you have anything to do with this group of people?”
Xia Chuo was stunned. She stared at Gu Lan blankly, and Gu Lan said calmly: “What I hate most is that because you are superior, you think you can trample on other people’s lives wantonly. If you are not happy, you will ruin my efforts. You think Feeling guilty, I will give a sum of money to make up for it. I am short of money, but I don’t want this kind of money!”
After speaking, Gu Lan pushed Xia Chiu away and left in stride.
He Linlin, who had finished saying goodbye to Zhang Xu, walked out and hurriedly stepped forward when she saw Xia Chiu with red eyes.
“Tweet, what’s wrong with you? Why are you crying? Who is bullying you?”
Xia Chiu Chiu didn’t speak, she turned her head and looked at Yang Wei.
“Where is Song Zhe?”
Yang Wei was stunned, Xia Chuchu squeezed her fist and gritted her teeth: “Tell me, where is Song Zhe?!”
On the other side, Gu Lan walked towards Gu’s mother.
Mother Gu stood at the end of the corridor, her expression tired, half a hundred of her hair scorched in the sun, making people’s eyes hot.
Gu Lan walked behind her, her mother pursed her lips. After a long time, she slowly said, “When you grow up, you can find a good job. If you like to paint, you can still paint.”
Gu Lan listened, slowly raising her head.
She looked at Mother Gu, her eyes soft and hopeless.
“Mom, I know you are doing me good,” she said in a gentle voice: “It won’t matter if you don’t paint.”
“I won’t draw anymore, I will take the university entrance exam.”
“Well,” Mother Gu lowered her eyes, “I will make you stewed pig’s feet today, your favorite.”
“No need,” Gu Lan held Gu’s mother, mother and daughter drifting away, as if the years were calm, and they discussed gently: “The doctor said, it’s better for Dad to eat something light…”
Some love hurts, but it is hard to give up.
There is no love for what it should be, and you must cherish it in return.
But some injuries cannot be healed, and some regrets cannot be recovered.
This is probably the most sad part of a lot of family affection.