Questionable
Chapter 22
Questionable
Early morning of November 4
Sam stretched his body and climbed up to see if the older brother was still breathing evenly and his heart was still beating, so he could pee without worry and then go to the canteen for breakfast.
There were a few people in the dining area. Sam stretched his shoulders and yawned, his sleepy and blurry eyes immediately widened and stared at the pretty girl who came to the counter to buy food.
He had met countless beauties but none of them could compare to the two little beauties. One had a strong and sharp beauty, and was always uncomfortable with the lustful eyes of men, the other looked as beautiful as a princess but was shy and timid.
The chronic disease of love for beauty recurs, the right eye raised, the left eye glanced down at the hot girl, the older brother was bedridden, and Sam went to touch the girl, which meant that he was wrong to his older brother, but he just wanted to tease them let wake himself up completely, which was completely within the acceptable range. The older brother probably didn't want the younger brother to be sad, so Sam reduced his guilt.
Sam sophistry his hobby of teasing girls, and while the beauties were waiting to get the goods, Sam took off his shoes and use barefoot sneaked go to, he was lighter than a cat, faster than a leopard and approached silently, so the other party didn't know.
The guy who loved beauty smiled slightly, touched their buttocks and squeeze slightly. The girls turned just as fast, two slaps bang bang on Sam's cheeks that made him feel burned:
- Pervert!
- Grandma kill you!
The people in the canteen didn't understand anything, they just saw Sam being chased by two little beauties, he was giggling and rubbing his cheeks which were redder than the sun.
- Be a flower for people to pick, be a girl for people to tease!
Sam turned around and run backwards, twitching his fingers, making a pinching motion, teasing:
- Two people suffer teased, proving that beautiful as Miss World, why hit me, be proud, beauties!
The astute girl is red and yelled, cursing:
- Don't let grandma catch you, pervert!
The timid girl blushed. The two girls felt aggrieved about the disgusting feeling of being touch the buttocks and gently pinched by him. From the past to the present, their bodies only had the traces of a man, now that they being perverted guy groped. They couldn't stand it anymore, so they jumped in and tried to kill Sam alive, the pervert confidently dodged to the left, slid to the right, avoided the east, hid to the west, did not forget to tease:
- I challenge you all to catch me, and I will let you liberty "abuse" and torture me freely!
He emphasized "abuse" make their faces redder than the sunset. Sam raised his eyes, scratched his beard, watched for a long time, and then teased.
Ignoring everyone's advice, this side forward to chase while the other party ran away like bait, sometimes letting the other one get close thinking they could catch him, and he showed his talent to pass through the narrow gaps, while threatening to slap their butts. The girls became alert and immediately raised their hands to cover their hip circumference. He stopped halfway and laughed loudly:
- Do you all think I'm teasing again? - He wiped his nose and smacked his lips - My older brother is in trouble, I'm not joke a lot. Bye bye little beauty!
He kissed the wind goodbye, picked up his shoes, spun his body around the fallen tables and chairs, gliding like the wind, and disappeared from the canteen in the blink of an eye.
The girls were so angry that they cried, kicked the pile of tables and chairs, took the food angrily, paid the bill, and walked out the door quickly. The canteen owner called back and asked for money for the damaged tables and chairs. The two girls shouted at the same time:
- You find looking for that pervert to collect your debt!
The boss shook his head, tired of the young people of today, tired of life, cleared the food on the counter, and reached for the top two highest-value bills, the boss thought the customer had forgotten, but no one receive, a woman said:
- I saw Sam putting money on the counter as compensation for the broken furniture.
Everyone praised Sam for having worthy of a man, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, the shopkeeper scratched his ear and said this amount is still very much left over. Sam suddenly appeared, showing his teeth and smiled:
- I will be here for a long time, and the money is enough to cover three meals a day.
Canteen owner asked dumbfoundedly:
- Why did you come back?
Sam looked at the boss with wide eyes:
- The owner is kind and honest like counting. No wonder you can't ask for compensation anyone. - He sat down at the table and ordered familiar dishes for his family - I'm starving, please cook faster.
Everyone gently pursed his lips looked at him, everyone wanted to laugh but didn't dare, Sam raised his lips, not understanding what was going on, he glanced at his own shadow on the shiny stainless steel table, staring blankly grotesque shapes painted crisscrossing on the face makes they all covered their mouths and listened to son muttering cursing father:
- Old man's ancestor, I was starving to death but he still made fun!
One person joked:
- Why tease girl when you are hungry?
He laughed he he:
- Poking the beast is fun!
He poured the tea into his hands and was about to wash his face when he heard the sharp-tongued girl's voice:
- Grandma make you fun cry, pervert!
Sam laughed feels like crying and ran quickly.
- Really poked the beast!
The two girls chased him all the way to the outside of the canteen. The three of them chase each other the hospital corridor. The security team couldn't stop them, the whole hospital was in an uproar.
Are running around for, what the hell the three of them came to the Hoang Kim room again. The fugitive and the catcher put their hands on their knees and gasped, Sam raised his hand with a bitter face:
- Let's stop fighting for now, tired splatter the cages... wrong, splatter bullets... wait... I said stop fighting for now...
Sam didn't know why he ran for several kilometers without getting tired, the two female tiger chased him to the point where smoke splashed, and he exhaled through his ears, bad luck is, he stopped in front of his older brother's room, if he have the guts to eat God also didn't dare to riot in a place that needed quiet. But it was tragic that the tigress didn't need to know where she was. The beast rolled up its shirt and rushed forward angrily.
- Grandma kill you!
- Don't even think about running away!
He was sweating, exhaustion, his limbs were shaking from hunger, and he had lost all his strength, so he stood still and let the tiger eat his meat, the girls pinched his face, bang bang constantly slapped him.
Sam doesn't want to hit a girl, especially pretty girl, he can't bear to do it, the fool who poked the fire ant nest was forced to ask for help:
- Old man, mother, save me...
The two of them quickly opened the door. Sam's father stared at the girl abusing his son with his open big eyes, and the old man smiled happily:
- Is your father dead? Who told you to tease shrewish girl, you deserve it!
- The old man's ancestor, not saving me is still laughing...
Sam screamed angrily, his mouth opened and couldn't close, hard to understand face looked at his mothe, in just a few seconds, the mother's shock turned into suspicion, and then frowned and looked at the two girls carefully, eyes which were narrowed at first suddenly opened so wide that her pupils froze, and the turbid white eyeballs was stained with the deep red of hot tears.
Sam was dumbfounded as he watched bitter tears pool in his mother's gentle sight line, mother only cried for her own flesh and blood but now she was crying for stranger, Sam remembered receiving this kind of family love, son was puzzled by mother strange expression because don't know whether to be happy or sad.
Mother watched the two of them like her own blood relatives, pain invaded the warm feeling, Sam bewildered because her mother had commiserate on them, sorrow dug into a deep melancholy face for more than thirty years, past sorrow and present pain overlapped on each other torture her spirit.
The two girl were even more weird, both the sharp girl and the shy girl blushed, the shyness was out of tune with the fear and timidity towards his mother, the girls retreated in confusion, lowering their heads and running away.
Thanh Hang did not dare to chase. She could not face the karma had caused to future generations. The two girls hugged the young married woman and came from afar. She frowned in surprise and asked:
- Who teases the my child?
The girls silently embraced their mother. That image reminded Thanh Hang of the newborn baby she had abandoned, now the mother of her granddaughter, Thanh Hang wanted to be with her daughter and granddaughters but don't dare meet anyone because afraid not be forgiven. The old mother quietly watched as her daughter and granddaughter embraced each other, the descendants were closer to her than ever, but Thanh Hang could never touch nostalgia.
Sam tilted his head to look at his mother who was smiling sadly, but tears welled up in the corners of his eyelids. He looked at the three of them with round eyes and flat eyes.
The two girls were no longer blushing, embarrassed pink color had been replaced by a pale face, few minutes ago, they were as fierce as a tigress but still more beautiful fairy, now they were as gray as a corpse, shrank back, and then hid behind the young woman as if they were afraid of being punished for making a mistake.
The young married woman was no better than the daughter, her was blankly as if she had been frozen. How his mother and the two girls felt, the young married woman expressed the same, as if copying each other. There was only one difference, hidden in the sadness, joy and fear was resentment, not so unforgivable, but also not easy to ignore, resentment is not light at all.
Observing every move and analyzing carefully, Sam was lost in the fog and could not explain this strange thing. In addition to the older brother, the mother did not mention any relatives, the four women kept performing pantomime, and his patience was pushed bottom. If Sam still watched and played the role of the crowd, he would go crazy.
Father was watching quietly, and when he noticed that Sam was about to act rashly, he immediately patted his son's shoulder and gestured, Sam nodded in understanding, everyone was distracted, father and son acted separately: father pretended to walk leisurely past family of woman and then walked around behind the three of them, Sam was as fast as lightning, pulling mother closer to the young married woman's and daughter.
- Mother, I accidentally touched two girls. I'm afraid people won't forgive me. I want my mother to go with me to apologize to them!
The four of them were uneasy, the mothers and two daughters turned around awkwardly, but Sam's father blocked their way, the old man pretended to scratch his head and laughed it off:
- My son was rude to your daughter and he wants to come and apologize. Please forgive!
Mothers and two daughters wanted to leave. Sam hurriedly said to his father:
- Huge, stop three people!
The old father raised his lips slightly when Sam dared to call his name, he did not answer son, but stood firmly to block the way, wherever the mother and daughter walked, the huge shadow passed by, the girls were so angry that they wanted to shout, but Sam immediately interrupted:
- I'm sorry about what happened in the canteen, please forgive me!
The mother and daughter did not dare to go back to accept the apology, afraid to face their loved ones. Thanh Hang still there is no faith that her descendants would forgive her, the mother hesitated, and family the young married woman became more frightened. They all avoiding each other, women are difficult to understand and is the god of trouble, he muttered impatiently, whispering to reconcile:
- After all, how do you all relate to each other? Debts are negotiable!
He paused to prepare the four to hear their worst fears:
- If you are family, forget it all, older brother still in a coma, what time is it now, you all are still sulking!
Huge nodded, satisfied that Sam knew how to lower his voice, father chose words of advice:
- The sadness of the past is just a stumbling block in people's growth. We should move towards the future and not fall into the past. People in the same family should reconcile, can we avoid each other for the rest of our lives?
Listening to Sam mentioning the older brother, they froze for a moment, but it was hard to escape Huge's eyes. The mother and daughter lowered their heads thoughtfully, and their suspicious attitude aroused suspicion in Huge's heart. This kind of sadness was not for relatives. He felt more like an emotion between men and women.
The father was startled and shocked, staring at the girls. Huge had always been proud of his intuition, now faith is shaken, because who have thought that three people developed feelings for Hoang Kim. The girls lowered heads wish hide emotions.
What the hell is this? Huge's face twisted, it was absurd things for the mother and two daughter to care about a man, not to mention possibly four people is relatives even more incredible, Huge slapped his forehead to dispel the crazy thoughts, if he still had the wrong idea about the three people, it was an insult to Hoang Kim.
The whispers around interrupted his thoughts, and several people pointed and talked, all three of them were related to Hoang Kim, and the family still left their tails here to become delicious bait for gossip.
The herd of vultures would bite and hold on, and everything would become a mess and out of control. He had to stop the bad things from the bud, so Huge made way for the mother and daughter.
Thanh Hang looked at her children and grandchildren disappearing at the back of the corridor, subconsciously raised her hand to called out, but gave up, quietly turned her head, secretly wiped her tears and returned to her son.
In the end, nostalgia is still just a memory. Humans cannot go back in time and change the past.
Sam guessed right, Huge let them go again, and he angrily blamed his father:
- What are you doing? - Sam lowered his voice so the old man could hear alone - Now know where to find them?
The father sighed and was helpless against his reckless son, Sam was keenly aware of the suspicious relationship, but he was also irritable, it haste was his son, Sam was very young, sixteen years old, making trouble, rioting, cursing life being redundant but the depth was sometimes superficial.
The old father click tongue and hinted to go to a place where no one was, Sam put both hands in his trouser pockets, pursed his lips and whistled, and went to the back of the hospital, looked around to make sure it was safe and instantly asked the old man why he let them to go, Huge took out a cigarette, lit it smoked:
- Woman sheds tears for her loved ones, becomes so emotional when she sees her a relative ones again after a long separation, proving that they are more than just relatives of each other!
Sam click tongue and mentioned his mother:
- I saw that young woman resented mother, maybe did mother do something wrong to her?
Huge took a puff of the cigarette. Sam hated the burning smell and waved his hand to tell his father:
- Disgusting, turn it off, now is not the time to smoke this debt!
Doubt filled Huge's mind, father pondered as the smoke rushed into his brain, the gray smoke swirled around his suspicious face.
- I also discovered that the mother and daughter all have feelings for Hoang Kim!
Sam opened his mouth wide, eyes in the shape of an O and mouth in the shape of an A, and looked at the old man:
- What did you say? The mother and two daughter love my older brother, splatter bullets...
The old man frowned and said: Make your mouth smaller. Sam raised his hand to cover his mouth and asked again, Huge emphasized every word:
- They are not in love yet, but their feelings are not small. One level lower than love, one level higher than simple. It looks like it is about to cross the fragile dividing line, I doubt they have unforgettable memories with your brother. Hoang Kim likes doing unthankful task, maybe my casanova nephew is once again in makes girls nostalgic through chivalrous behavior similar to when he was in the Hexagon country. - Huge laughed with a puff of gray smoke - Tsk, maybe I am too suspicious.
His father's words reminded Sam of how they were ashamed, confused, and afraid when they met mother, as if had committed a heinous crime, Sam didn't believe it but it was hard to dispel doubts, hidden secrets already took root deep mind and then stab branches out and spreading, intertwined on the his face, Sam told Huge everything he saw:
- You have a very correct hunch, old father, they must have feelings for the older brother, so they are shy, mother and two daughter care about a man, think that sarcasm is beyond the limit, they are relatives so afraid of being scolded and punished by their mother. The relationship between the four people is very twisted, it's not that simple!
Huge open eyes wide stared at Sam, not expecting his son's deduction to be even more perverted than father's. The old father stared at him in astonishment as if he was looking at something strange which made Sam furious:
- We're talking about important things, seriously, old father!
Huge suspected that the girls were at a loss, shy, frightened, and blushing, but his reason did not allow him to accept this crazy thing, say be reduced or say avoided is be absurd, said heavy words would scold incestuous and immoral.
- You are right, but not completely accurate. Do you think that the mother and daughter are three dignified and virtuous is the type of woman who is promiscuous, shameless and have affection for their relatives? That is incest, my son!
Sam considered all the circumstances carefully:
- If the mother and daughter lost their relatives when they were young, people don't know that they are related to Hoang Kim, and my older brother helps them, so they develop feelings, women are easily moved!
Sam shrugged:
- My brother is a world-famous attractive for girl, handsome and generous, galant, and excessive concern about others, especially women, he is gentle every minute and every second, and he is often teased by beautiful girls, he always been like this so it would be strange if the girls didn't like him. Damn, I like him too, not to mention girls!
Sam thought about it and was worried that this guess was true:
- Maybe they knew their identity not long ago. But it's too late, affection can't be given up immediately just by saying give up!
Go to was this surprised from to surprised another, the old father was speechless to his paranoid son, he couldn't believe that his son had a rich imagination that was more than a thousand light years away, father took a puff of cigarette let warming his body that was trembling with Sam's inference, because Sam said all that his father just dared to think. Huge frowned and turned to the noteworthy things:
- I think my sister seems to be at fault with them. She doesn't dare to acknowledge her relatives, what mistakes did she make that she is afraid of her offspring?
Sam's face is wrinklier than a monkey eating ginger:
- Who told you to let them go? You like to rack your brains to guess, the old man suffering plague?[1]
Huge frustratedly patted his son's head:
- Damn, this guy who was always smart suddenly became stupid, the crows and owls were curious and surrounded and busybody, the four of them cried so much, let be the bait for them to eat and drink?
Sam's face looks like a goose that just took a shit:
- Oh ha!
- Oh ha! - The old father raised his lips and stretched out the sound to imitate Sam's words - After say a long time, finally said oh ha!
Sam ignored the teasing and asked for a solution. Huge moved his foot to let put out the half-smoked cigarette.
- Where were you groping those two girls?
Sam was at a loss, not understanding, the old man click tongue in disappointment:
- Damn, whenever simp, he becomes as stupid to the extent desert of words!
Sam shouted angrily:
- Damn, you asked aimlessly, who will understand it immediately!
- Aimlessly your head. - The old father pushed his son's forehead with his hand - Listen to me, idiot!
Sam no free time to refute his father. He wanted to solve this problem as soon as possible to take care of his brother. Sam said that the teased the girl in canteen and pricked up his ears to listen to father help him brainstorm:
- You ask the canteen owner, who are they, are they visiting a doctor or visiting relatives? If visiting relatives or seeing a doctor, the full name is listed in the hospital list, do you understand?
Sam understood with bright eyes, and then discussed it with his father. The father and son nodded, patted each other's hands, and laughed he he:
- Implementation.
***
Sam brought breakfast from the canteen for the whole family, mother ate attentively, and he winked at his father, the father and son found an excuse to go out, Sam revealed the identities of the three of them:
- The young married woman's name is Ngoc, the shy girl is the eldest daughter Tuyet Lan, the girl who pinches hurts me the most is Bang Suong, the youngest daughter Luu Ly, 13 years old suffering from advanced blood cancer, treatment in emergency room. Luu Ly's blood is super rare and rejects the blood and bone marrow of relatives. No suitable bone marrow has been found yet!
Sam suddenly became as sad as a time stone, his funny face disappeared, replaced by an unspeakable worry, the old man had never seen his son so silent.
Sam also didn't know how to describe that kind of sadness, afraid no one to bring him peaceful in the future. Huge suddenly chuckled like crazy, the old father didn't expect son to be so sentimental, Sam also sentimental with loli.
- Oh, heaven and earth, have you taken the wrong medicine? This simp guy is interested in big breasts and plump butts, and he also likes loli.
Sam was hit by Huge's words and immediately kicked his father's leg:
- Damn, muddy old guy!
Huge hugged his legs, he laughed until tears came out, father teased to ease his sorrow, but Sam couldn't stand this playful smiley face habit, he urged to carry out the plan.
Huge hid in the corner and waited for Sam. After a while, Sam and Thanh Hang came out of the room. Huge saw mother excited and nervous, and his father smiled slightly when Sam giving a thumbs up.
Thanh Hang asked a nurse who was an acquaintance to take care of Hoang Kim. She and Sam left the hospital through the back door to avoid the media.
Waiting to receive a text message from Sam, Huge went to the emergency room, he knocked on the door several times before someone opened it, Ngoc realized he was the one blocking his path, she hurried to close the door but was steel arm stopped. Huge whispered:
- If we stand still here, people will gossip.
Ngoc had no choice but to let him in. She opened the door to guard against gossipers. Huge put the fruit bag on the table and glanced at Luu Ly lying on the bed, eyes closed, pale, but breathing still steady, the old father breathed a sigh of relief on behalf of his son.
The Lan sisters sat beside their sister, lowered their heads awkwardly, listened silently to Huge's asked Luu Ly's condition, Ngoc thanked him and briefly told him the situation, Huge nodding slightly, got to the point:
- My sister is seriously ill and wanted to see you and your daughter one last time, but she hesitated, I afraid she won't have the chance to reunite with her family!
Huge's voice was sad, so sad that it couldn't be more painful. Not long ago, she reunited with her family, and they were about to be parting between life and death.
Why couldn't God give her family a peaceful day? Ending this pain and turning to another kind of pain, God was kind enough to torture the mother and daughter to death to satisfy himself.
Thirty years later, Ngoc finally saw her mother, but cruel fate forced her and her mother to be separated, Ngoc wanted to tell her mother many things, but it was too late. She was angry with God and cursed herself.
At this painful moment, the grudges, emotions, and sins no longer bound the minds of the mother and daughter, the offspring must to come to their relative to satisfy their nostalgia and apologize to the one who gave birth to them.
Huge said she regretted her past mistakes, missed you and your daughter, a drop of peach blood is more than pond water, they want her to touch the nostalgia, she has endured a lot of pain, holding the children in arms is the last happiness in her life, so the mother and daughter rushed out of the room, Huge instantly said:
- My sister is at home, because she hates being disturbed. You all go home, I'll take care of Luu Ly!
They thanked Huge, when they were far away from the room, Ngoc called and asked Anh Dao to take to Hoang Kim's house:
- I don't want strangers to snoop, please help me, I'll explain later!
Notes
[1](dialect, colloquial) It means to curse, to talk about someone you hate, to talk about someone who likes to play tricks on you, someone who often does things that make you angry, to curse each other, or to when having fun and joking with each other.