The Lost City of Alien Beasts

Chapter 492 The Secret of Tengu

"Why do you do this?" Gao Yang didn't understand.

The tengu lowered his head.

"If you don't want to say it, don't say it." Gao Yang leaned back and put his hands behind his back. It was good to just enjoy the sea breeze.

Before, Tengu would definitely not have said that.

He once wanted to go to the island country and see his mother's hometown many times. Twice, he even bought a boat ticket, but in the end he still didn't have the courage to get on the cruise ship.

But tonight's unexpected situation gave him no time to think about it. When he came to his senses, he was already on the cruise ship.

It turns out that nothing in this world will happen until you are ready.

So, why not tell a teammate you are not familiar with but can still trust you with your deepest secrets?

Tengu raised his head and looked at Gao Yang calmly, his voice still lazy: "Because I'm afraid of being known, I don't have a mother."

Next, Tengu told his story.

The story is not long, it is told in two songs.

In Tengu's memory, his parents were completely different from those couples on TV.

The couples on TV are either respectful to each other, or they are inseparable, they either stick together through thick and thin, or they stay together, but my own father and mother are quarreling every day.

There was hysteria, insults, and even fights.

When Tengu was four years old, the relationship between his father and mother completely broke down, and his father moved out of the house and lived with another woman.

Mom and Tengu are still staying in the previous apartment.

Is mom nice to Tengu?
Looking back now, it's actually not good at all.

Sometimes, my mother would stay in the mahjong parlor for a whole day and night, making the tengu so hungry that he could only dig through the spoiled bread crumbs in the trash can.

In Tengu's memory, when he was a child, he would stuff himself every time he ate until he couldn't eat anymore, because he didn't know when his next meal would be.

Sometimes, Mom would get so drunk that she would vomit all over the floor and then fall asleep on the couch.

The four-year-old Tengu, holding a broom and mop taller than himself, was cleaning the house and cleaning up his mother's vomit.

In the middle of the night, my mother would suddenly wake up, and then she would go crazy with alcohol, crying and yelling, saying that being a human being was meaningless and that she would be a dog instead of a human being in her next life. In the end, the neighbors called the police, and she was taken away by the police for disturbing the residents in the middle of the night. Walk.

Sometimes, my mother would bring home a young, handsome, strange man. At first, they were in love with each other and talked sweetly, but within a few days, they would have the same quarrels as my father and mother, and then my mother would kick the man out and end the relationship.

Tengu's mother is a completely unfit mother.

But it's strange that what Tengu remembers is always his mother's kindness to him.

Sometimes, when my mother won money playing mahjong, she would order burgers, French fries and Coke, and then lie on the sofa with Tengu and watch "Tom and Jerry."

The mother and son ate high-calorie food while watching Tom being tricked by Jerry, and then laughed happily.

Sometimes, when my mother sees Tengu being bullied by a naughty kid from a neighbor's house, she will rush up to him and slap him on the head. Then he will inevitably quarrel with the naughty kid's parents on the street for an hour, using foul language. The words came out of his mouth, just like a shrew swearing in the street.

Sometimes, my mother would wake up in the middle of the night, push open the door of Tengu's bedroom, hold the sleeping Tengu in her arms and cry. My mother kept talking about her confusion and helplessness, that life was too hard and she didn't know where to go.

The tengu was too young to understand his mother's words, so he could only hug her tightly.

At that time, Tengu thought that he must grow up quickly so that he could protect his mother and prevent her from being sad.

On Tengu's fourth birthday, his mother bought him a large cream cake.

At night, my mother lit candles, asked the tengu to make a wish, and then blew out the candles.

At this time, the mother looked at the tengu and smiled, with a particularly calm expression: "Xiaoran, mother is leaving."

"Where are you going?" Tengu asked.

Mom thought for a while and said, "Go to the island country."

The four-year-old Tengu didn't know where the "island" was. He thought it was the same as a "mahjong parlor", "supermarket", "noodle shop" and "park". He thought his mother was just leaving home for a while and would come back soon. "When will mother come back?" Tengu asked.

Mom picked up the plastic fork and slowly cut the cake for Tengu: "Mom is not coming back."

"why?"

Mom smiled and said, "Because Mom is going home, I can't take you with me."

"Mom..." Tengu finally realized the seriousness of the matter: "I, I promise I won't faint again, I won't want toys, and I won't be bullied by Xiaozhi... I will never make my mother angry again. Come on, mom, don’t leave me..."

The tengu's eyes were red, but he didn't dare to cry.

"Be good, Xiaoran." Mom still smiled, and she touched the tengu's head, "Don't cry, don't catch up, got it?"

The Tengu, still wearing a birthday hat made of paper, sat on the sofa and watched helplessly as his mother got up, walked to the entrance, and closed the door.

In the past, every time my mother went out, she would wash her hair, put on a beautiful dress, stand in front of the mirror and apply lipstick, and then take her wallet, keys and cigarettes.

But this time, my mother didn't bring anything. It seemed she just went downstairs to buy a lighter.

Tengu wanted to cry and chase after him, but he held back.

Because he is an obedient child, he must listen to his mother and is not allowed to cry or catch up.

Tengu told himself that this was just a test from his mother, and he must have done something wrong and made his mother angry again.

It must be so.

So, I want to be an obedient child, so that my mother will come back.

Tengu held back his tears and ate the piece of birthday cake his mother cut for him.

After the Tengu finished eating, he thought the cake was so sweet and delicious, so he ate the whole cake like before, leaving only his mother's portion.

Tengu ate until his stomach was bulging and full, and he kept burping.

That night, my mother did not come home.

The next day, my mother didn't come home.

It wasn't until the third day that his father showed up and took Tengu, who was almost unconscious from hunger, back to his new home. On the table, there was a piece of stinky cake that Tengu left for his mother.

From then on, Tengu lived with his father and stepmother. The next year, his father and stepmother gave birth to a younger sister for Tengu.

The relationship between father and stepmother is very good, they are like those loving couples in TV series.

Moreover, they have no preference for their stepsisters and treat the Tengu equally.

Tengu grew up in a happy family, for which Tengu was grateful and contented.

However, there is always something deep in the Tengu's heart.

That was the scar left by his mother in his heart on his fourth birthday, a scar that has never healed.

Later, Tengu would always wonder, what happened to his mother who had returned to the island country?

Has she started a new family, is she happy, will she still wake up late at night and cry helplessly, will she also think of Xiaoran who has been waiting for her to come home.

Tengu cannot know all this.

The only thing he can do is to learn everything about the island country and try to imagine his mother's life there.

Sometimes he even fantasizes about his other destiny line in a parallel world.

In that fateful line, his mother took him to the island country and lived a different life from then on.

Later, whenever someone asked about Tengu's mother or about the island country, he would always answer eloquently, as if he had grown up there.

Tengu did this just because he didn't want people to find out that he had no mother for a long time.

(End of this chapter)