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The Doyle of Happy Valley

The woman who was crying wiped away her tears and told her story.

By JamesPublished 2 years ago 8 min read
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The Doyle of Happy Valley
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On the mountain path of Happy Mountain, two old women sat on the turf beach, one kept crying, "His aunt, what kind of sin did I make in my life, my son is unfilial, my girl is ungrateful, I'd rather die." The other one urged, "No, his aunt, it's better to die than to live, what's the matter?"

The woman who was crying wiped away her tears and told her story.

The year Doyle was born, her mother had uterine cancer, and the doctor recommended treatment before having a child, but Doyle's mother stubbornly wanted to give birth to Doyle, and the doctor looked at Doyle's mother and shook his head, and walked away. The doctor looked at Douer's mother and shook his head and walked away. Doug's mother pulled Douer's father and said, "I've been married to the Yang family for three years, and it's hard to conceive a child, but I've never been cured of cancer in years.

Doug's father, with red eyes, looked at his wife and nodded and said, "Don't worry, we'll get through this, I don't believe God is that heartless."

Doyle's mother said, "The baby is born, if it's a boy, you name it, if it's a girl, you name it Doyle."

The next morning, the child was born, a girl, the mother did not take a look at the child, and then died. The father watched the doctor take the child into the warm room, wiping away the tears that he couldn't stop leaving, and looked at the cold body of his wife and said, "Have a good trip, don't worry! I will raise her to adulthood." The aunt stood next to her, held back a glance at Douer, heart is very unhappy, not just a woman, no remarriage, this is good, the woman is gone, more a dragging bottle. The family has to be separated, not for nothing to support a motherless foreigner, the days ahead are long, see how you can raise her to adulthood. However, she is a woman's words do not care fire, Doyle's father earned more money a year than she earned in five years, moreover, Doyle's father loved his wife, his wife went, all the love was given to Doyle, she wants to divide the family is not appropriate, money is good, anyway, Doyle and do not want to bring their own, or after a few years to say. Thinking of this, she just said, "Big brother, will home, people can not return to life, Doyle in the greenhouse with a doctor to watch or take care of the aftermath is important." Doyle's father looked at Doyle's mother several times before he stood up and left, allowing the helpers to push the body out of the morgue and send it to the cremation plant.

In the blink of an eye, Doyle is six years old, Doyle is also very well-behaved, the little mouth is also very sweet, so Doyle in the arms of his father, in the care of his grandparents, is very happy, always in the happy growth, in elementary school, height and weight are more than the same age children. When she was in elementary school, she was taller and heavier than the children of her age. Her grandparents and parents in Happy Valley praised her for being a girl with a good life and a good childhood. She was very upset, but she couldn't find anything wrong with her, she just thought, both are girls, why do grandparents take care of her more, but her own Xiang Yuan seems to be very little, she was not convinced, a motherless girl what is worth so much effort. So she said to her husband: "Look at other people Douer, although no mother, they live a good life, look at our Xiang Yuan, that point is not as good as her, but grandparents take Douer as a baby, Xiang Yuan, in their hearts is not serious. The grandparents treat Douer as their baby, but Xiang Yuan is not a big deal to them.

The husband looked at his wife and said, "Douer has no mother to love, grandparents give her a little more love is normal, Xiang Yuan has parents, love deep, very good. Don't worry about it, family harmony is a beautiful thing." Duo's aunt stopped talking but was particularly sad in her heart. She knew that they could not yet separate the family, Duo's father was very capable of earning money, and she had to suppress the fire in her heart.

She was very fond of learning and got compliments from her teachers, and she got full marks on all her tests for a year. The day Doyle and Xiang Yuan pathway home, grandparents prepared a table of sweet meals, aunt was also very happy, busy, and heart happy, because she helped Doyle introduce a stepmother. The woman was her good sister. She wanted to make Douer suffer a lot.

The woman saw Douer, a good-looking woman, and was very fond of her, calling softly "Douer!" She reached out to put her arms around Douer, who politely called out, "Little mother." The woman was very affectionate and sat next to her stepmother. When the aunt saw it, her nose was not her nose and her face was not her face. Regret being the introducer, okay sister. The woman looked at her, smiled, and said, "Don't be jealous, she's still a child." She swept the woman a glance, her buttocks twisted and walked away fiercely.

A year later, Doyle's stepmother gave birth to a younger brother, and the aunt gave birth to a younger brother. The aunt looked at Doyle and said with hatred in her heart, "Doyle, your good days are over." She had to jump away and make herself clean, she didn't want to get involved in this family anymore. The tree is big and forked, and many people have to be separated. She blew pillow talk to her husband and had to tell her in-laws directly, and the elderly agreed.

Doyle's family and the aunt's family lived separately. The relationship between Douer and the stepmother is very good, often helps the stepmother to lead her brother, and do housework, but also brings water to the grandparents to send food, the aunt looked at the smile open heart, "little girl, have you good suffering in the back?" Then look at Xiang Yuan, but very reluctant to do these things. The aunt's heart aches for her daughter, turning a blind eye, but the heart curses that day, Douer's family will be a big deal, and Douer will not have much good luck.

The flow of time passed by, Douer and Xiang Yuan graduated from high school, Douer and Xiang Yuan went to college, the aunt signed from the letter carrier, and the brain immediately thought: "Douer's life is so good, thought of many ways to let her suffer a little, this time let her have a good meal." She then hid Douer's and said, "Xiang Yuan's notice has arrived, and Douer's is not yet in her possession." To give Xiang Yuan to celebrate, she smiled happily, busy, feast full of folks three big Zhuo. Doyle was puzzled, and quietly reported the town's postal and electric office a question, the letter carrier looked at her, scratched his head, and then reassured: "Go back, I will be responsible."

The postman said that he would not be able to get the job done.

That day, the postman came and said directly to the aunt: "Take it out! Don't do that unseemly thing." The aunt shyly took it out of her coat pocket, and Zou Baba asked her husband to hand it to Douer. The queen's mother looked at the aunt, her face was gloomy. The aunt bowed her head and silently walked past the queen's mother.

Some years ago, Douer had her own home, and also added a small baby, Douer drove home to let the stepmother bring her doll, let the father come home from the field, well with her brother to study, and also gave the grandparents a lot of living expenses, but also bought a lot of things for the aunt. Heung-won, however, divorced twice, for reasons caused by the fact that he was very lazy. The aunt looked at Douer and was sad to the core.

The grass on Douer's grandparents' graves was high and tall, Douer's brother had gone off to college, and Douer had picked up her father. The aunt looked up at the sky and thought about being kicked out of her daughter's son's house, and her heart felt like a knife. She called Doyle and asked her stepmother to come back and take over her home, she wasn't waiting for them anymore, it was time for her to go where she was going. Doyle's stepmother took a taxi and came back in a hurry. The aunt who was hanging from the beam was brought down.

After half a day of persuasion, the woman finally stopped crying and stared blankly at the distant place of Happy Hill, when the stepmother's phone rang. She finished answering the phone and said, "Doyle for the aunt to find a good job in the city, so that the stepmother to take the aunt to the city to live together." The woman was ashamed and helpless, she stood up and said, "God, punish me quickly!" Doyle's stepmother stood behind her and smiled faintly.

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