Seek the title of Yi Shu's short stories.

Yi Shu spent time.

Isabel

The phone woke us in the middle of the night. The wife put on her dressing gown and went to the living room to pick it up. Who hasn't called with our room number so late? I turned on the bedside lamp.

The wife came in and said, "William Yu, it seems that there is something urgent for you."

I groaned and looked at the clock. It was 3: 45 in the morning.

I picked up the telephone receiver in the living room. "Song Jiahao."

"Song." Yu's voice was urgent, but calm. "I'm sorry to wake you at this time. Can you come to us at once? In ten minutes, I will send a driver to pick you up at your door. "

"I can drive by myself." I said.

"No, I don't want you to drive."

"What's the emergency?" I asked.

"It's Isabel."

My heart sank. "What's wrong with her?"

"Suicide."

I was silent and my hands trembled.

"Song?" He asked, "Are you still there? Song? "

"I'll get dressed."

"I'm sorry, Song. She wants to see you. "

"I'll be right there." I put the phone down.

The driver of the Yu family has come to ring the bell, and the servant hurried to open the door.

My wife asked me, "not Isabel again?" A gaunt face.

"This time she committed suicide at home." I put on my shirt and trousers. "I have to go once. I will slap her until she wakes up. "

The wife asked in despair, "What's wrong with the child? Jiahao, if you love her, I am willing to quit. We just watched her born. Jia Hao, you and her-"

I binge drank: "I don't love her! I don't love her at all. Can you shut up? "

My wife sat on the edge of the bed, beautiful and pale, watching me change my shoes.

I sat down, too "Look, yes, I love her, but I have never regarded her as a woman. She is a child and we have a legal daughter. "

"She is a woman," whispered the wife. "Isabel is a beautiful woman. She is nineteen years old, and she loves you deeply. "

"I'm leaving." I said, "She's not in danger. Don't worry. Take a sleeping pill and sleep. "

She walked me to the door. "Go back quickly."

At dawn, the driver of Yu's family drove to Shi 'ao without saying a word, and the back of my head seemed to crack with pain.

I opened the door for me. Mrs. Yu won't see me for a while. Yu said, "She feels so humiliated, Song. We are all sorry for you."

Isabel was lying in bed, and the doctor came and left.

Yu said: "For this daughter, I hope I can strangle her myself." He broke out in a cold sweat, hated bones and clenched his fists. "She wrote on the paper that she wants to see you, dead or alive."

"What did she do?" I asked, "Sleeping pills?"

"hang yourself."

My hands are shaking again.

"The rope is broken. If her dog barks and you are there, let her really hang up and save trouble. " I covered my face.

"You don't really think so." I'll go upstairs. "She is still your daughter."

I have been to Yu Jia many times! Isabel was born, Isabel went to school, and Isabel's tenth birthday. Isabel sat on my lap, and her chubby little arms put their arms around my neck and hugged me a thousand times. Isabel ...

Then once, Isabelle hung her face next to my neck behind me, and Mrs. Yu stopped her: "Isabelle!" " "Isabella has grown up. But Isabel still openly pestered me without scruple until she was sent to London, escaped back ... and sent it out. ...

I pushed open the familiar bedroom door. "Isabel"

She is not lying in bed. She sat on the ground and wrote on a piece of paper. She looked up, her eyes burning and crazy. A circle around her neck was red and swollen by the rope, and the broken place was wrapped in gauze. She opened her mouth, her vocal glands were completely lost, and she only made a hoarse single tone. She has completely turned into a beast, a little beast that has been deeply hurt, ready to attack and retaliate.

My legs are weak, but I must keep calm. I walked over, gently lifted her neck and examined her wound. I said coldly, "Use 500 Jin of nylon rope next time, otherwise there may be hope of success."

She tried to slap me in the face. I am very angry. I didn't expect her to be so strong. I raised my hand and put it down again. She glared at me. I turned and said, "I won't waste any more time on you." I opened the door. "I give up."

But she grabbed me from behind and grabbed the hem of my coat. She used to hold my coat like this when she was a child. A wife can't have children. We love her as our own, baby Isabella, our Isabella.

With tears on her face, she thrust the words she had just written into my hand. I spread out a note that said, "I love you."

I said at the top of my lungs, "You can't do this, Isabel."

She just pulled my skirt. When she was young, she would do this every time she begged me, and then I would promise her everything. I held her in my arms and said, "You can't do this, Isabel."

Her throat made a vague sound, and she held me tightly and buried her head in my chest. I can feel her intense heartbeat, her body fragrance, her youthful skin and her elastic chest. I pushed her away: "Isabel! Can't do this. "

Hearing the knock at the door, she let me go.

It's Mrs. Yu, "Jiahao."

Isabel stood sideways with her back to her mother.

"I'm coming down." I said.

Lady Yu gnashed her teeth and said to Isabel, "I regret giving birth to you beast!" " "

I pulled Mrs. Yu out of the room and we went downstairs together. They're all bright, a gray-blue color.

Give me a small brandy.

I said, "Is Isabel sedated?"

Yu Dao: "Yes."

I said, "She should be asleep."

Yu said: "She should go to school in London, be filial to her parents and be a normal person." The sound rumbled like thunder.

Mrs. Yu hid her face and wept.

"I'm leaving." I said, "There's not much I can do to help. Send her out again, let her forget, don't be too hard on her, she is still young, and it is not her will to be born in this world. She is still your daughter. Goodbye. " I put down my glass and walked to the gate.

My driver took me home.

Wife didn't sleep again. She has changed her clothes and is having breakfast.

I said, "I have to go to the clinic."

She asked nothing. I kissed her forehead and she shook my hand.

In the clinic, I recalled the first time Isabel expressed her feelings to me. Our two families are skiing in northern Italy. She said, "Song, I love you." I said, "I love you too, Isabel."

She turned and stared at me in the snow. "Really? Do you love me? Are you really in love with me? Really? "

We have been silent since we slipped down the mountain.

After returning to Hong Kong, she came to see me at the clinic and had nothing to do with chewing gum. She wore a shirt and a big round skirt that day. She said, "Don't tell my parents, I want to ask you for some birth control pills."

I looked up, shocked, but soon calmed down. I said, "The side effects of birth control pills are too great to be eaten well for a long time."

"What do you suggest?" She asked.

"I have checked it in detail for you. Contraceptives can't be bought in pharmacies on the street. "

She slowly unbuttoned her shirt and never took her eyes off my face. I suddenly felt embarrassed and even my heart beat. She is not wearing underwear, and her areola is extremely light brown. I raised my voice: "Nurse!" Nurse, come in. I said, "Get ready to take your blood pressure."

I listened to Isabel's heartbeat. I've heard of100000 patients' hearts, but I've never been so nervous. The nurse recorded her blood pressure, and Isabel buttoned up her shirt and tucked it into her skirt. There is a coquettish smell on her childish face. I feel horrible. After drinking half a cup of tea, I said, "You are still a virgin." She was sixteen years old that year.

"yes." She answered simply.

I asked, "Do you want to' start' so early?"

"I'll wait for you," she replied nakedly. "When you are ready, I will wait for you."

My throat has never done this, my dear Isabel.

From that day on, I was far away from my family. Mr. Yu and Mrs. Yu seem to know more about what happened than I do, and our two families are beginning to drift apart. They sent Isabel to London, but in late autumn, she fled back.

My wife is on holiday in Tokyo. In the morning, I went downstairs to the car clinic. She stood at the garage door. In the fog and light rain, she didn't even take an umbrella. She wore a silver fox coat, soaked with ivory face and big black eyes.

"Isabel!" I walked over in surprise. "You look wet ― you should be in London and you don't have a holiday ― what happened?"

She smiled and gave me a gentle hug. I don't have time to dodge. She whispered, "I came back to see you. I missed you." I can't sleep, London is too far away. "

"Do your parents know that you are back?"

"No, they didn't." She looked up and kissed me.

Her lips are so sweet and soft, and her body is warm. I'm just one person. For a moment, madly in love, I pushed her away. "I can't do it, Isabel."

"Why not?" She asked.

"I am your godfather."

"We don't have incest."

"Actually, no, I made a psychological mistake."

"Do you love me?"

"I love you like a daughter."

"I am a woman."

"My daughter was born a woman."

"Are you afraid of cheating on your wife?"

"No, after marriage, I don't just sleep with my wife. But you won't, Isabel, ever. Our two families are family friends. If I had a son, he would marry you. We can't do this, Isabel. "

"Your wife is infertile, and I can give you many children."

"Shut up! Isabel. "

"I love you. I have loved you since I was three years old. I can't give up easily. You will know that I love you more than anything in the world and more than my life. "

"For God's sake! Isabel, we are not playing a romantic drama! "

She said in despair, "You don't believe me, do you? I will prove it to you. "

"I don't want to see anything."

I drove her home.

I hinted to Yu what had happened, and Isabelle was sent to London. Our two families have become strangers, and my wife naturally knows about it. She didn't know the seriousness of the matter at first. She smiled and said, "If she is not Yu's daughter, if we don't look down on her, it really doesn't matter at all. There are many 70-year-old men and 19-year-old mistresses Isabel is a beautiful girl. She is very sexy. I don't mind you having such a mistress. "

My idea is totally different from my wife's, and I'm scared. I'm afraid to see Isabel. I know myself well. One day I will be at a loss and collapse. I'm just one person.

I didn't have an accident for half a year. I went to Europe for a meeting and stayed in a hotel in Rouen, France. One day I slept until midnight, and suddenly the door of the hotel was opened. Someone said, "Thank you, here is the tip." A girl's voice.

I opened my eyes, the door was closed, and a hazy figure recognized who it was at a glance.

I sat up. "Isabel"

"I'm freezing to death!" She gasped, "my god! I walked all the way from the railway station to this place, three and a half miles! " The sound of teeth chattering.

"Isabel! How did you know I was here? How did you find me? " I lifted the blanket.

She took off her boots in a hurry and got into my bed, frozen like ice. I didn't push her away because her lips were purple with cold and she almost twitched. I picked up the phone, ordered a large cup of hot coffee and sent it to my room.

"Isabel" I shook my head and sighed.

When the milk coffee comes, I will give it to her, and it will be fine after a while.

"Why?" I asked.

She didn't answer. She jumped on me and hugged me.

"How is your homework?"

She didn't answer, put her face on my chest and breathed.

"You really will freeze to death on the road. This is not a joke. " I said.

She turned around and put the other side of her face on my chest. "I can hear your stomach growling." When I was a child, I liked to sleep on you. "

"But you are no longer a child." I said.

"But I'm not old. If I am twenty-five or twenty-seven, I can't do this kind of thing any more, and society won't forgive me. I'm glad I'm still young-I love you. " She kept kissing my face, my forehead and my lips.

I dodged. "Isabel, society forgives you, but society won't forgive me."

"I don't care, I only know that I love you, and I want to marry you and spend my life with you." She said.

"Impossible, I am twenty-five years older than you. When you were thirty, I put one foot in the coffin. Don't forget I have a wife. I love my wife. Don't forget your parents, I respect your parents. "

"I love you."

"Go back to London."

"Please let me stay in Rouen with you." She said, "Only three days. Please, this is so important to me. Please. "

Isabel, you must go back to London.

She cried, from crying to crying. I have seen her cry many times ―― she broke the doll, was bullied by her classmates, failed the exam and didn't buy new clothes. But I've never been so sad, as if the world had left her, crying my eyes out.

I made a long-distance call to tell Yu. I was silent for a while and said, "I'll be right there." But it will take 24 hours at the earliest. "This 24 hours is my problem.

Isabel is not sad. She said, "At least I have 24 hours."

"Why?" I'm asking questions.

"I don't know, I love you."

"You are so young, do you know what love is?"

"I love you." She said it over and over again.

"What do you see in me?"

She smiled. "I like to smell you."

"Isabel, be reasonable-"

"Come with me to Paris. Everyone should go to Paris with his lover, even for a day. "

"I can't."

"You are a cruel person."

"I'm doing it for your own good."

"I don't want you to be nice to me." She said, "I want you to love me."

"Isabel-"I was so tired that I was tongue-tied.

She is really a beautiful and mature girl. Walking with her in the street attracted many envious eyes. I don't know how much longer I can hold on like this. I also explained this to Yu William when he arrived in Rouen.

"I am a middle-aged, a normal middle-aged. Look at Isabel. How long do you think I can stand this kind of abuse? " I said, "Believe me, Yu, I didn't do anything to seduce her. I am sorry for you. "

"I'll take her back." What I said is very simple.

He brought Isabella back to Hong Kong.

I also returned to Hong Kong after the meeting. Until last night, she committed suicide.

I feel very tired. And the wife began to discover that the truth was not as simple as she imagined. Isabel's mind is not normal. It seems that she must get me, or she will not stop for the rest of her life.

After she recovered, she invited me to lunch.

"I am very busy at noon." I said.

"Tomorrow. Not tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, I will wait. Just tell my parents that they don't want me. It doesn't matter. No one in the world loves me anymore. "

"Go out, Isabel, and walk into the street. If any little boy doesn't look back at you again, please ask him to see me. " I asked, "Nobody loves you?"

"Have lunch with me." She is persistent.

I really want to cry. hang up

When my wife came to see me, she was livid and said coldly, "The best way is to let her open a hotel room, take off her clothes and wait for you in bed. Once and for all, no worries. "

I pointed to her nose and said, "If you think I didn't want to do that, you are all wet!" " "

The wife left in a hurry.

I left the clinic to get my car. Isabel stood by the car waiting for me. She is leafing through an English magazine, leaning against the front of the car, looking carefree. I immediately went back to the telephone booth and called Yu Mansion. Mrs Yu answered the phone. She asked, "Jiahao, what's the matter?" My voice was ashamed and ashamed. I couldn't bear to say more, so I cleared my throat and replied, "Nothing, long time no see. I want to ask William if he can play tennis on Saturday! " "

Mrs. Yu breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, he will go."

I said, "OK, then I'll wait for him at the stadium. Thank you. "

"Jiahao-"She hesitated.

I knew what she wanted to ask, and I replied, "I'm fine, don't worry."

"Goodbye, Jiahao." Her self-esteem seems to have recovered a little, and her voice glands are natural.

"Goodbye." I said, how to complain?

In recent years, I have been in contact with Yoga Yu for the sake of Isabelle. I lit a cigarette and walked slowly to her side. Isabel said hello to me when she saw me. She is nineteen years old, so presumptuous, so selfish, without considering anyone, and always only does what she likes to do to satisfy her own selfish desires. She is really a beautiful girl, but I hate her.

I opened the door with the key, and she waited for me to open another door for her. I pretended not to see it and started the engine.

"hey!" She knocked on the window. "Hello!"

I fell in the dust.

I drove to Repulse Bay, sat alone in the shade and drank a glass of beer. A gorgeous girl next door smiled at me and I nodded to her. She twisted over and said, "What a nice day." The broken brown leaves of the shadow tree rained down and broke my heart. What's the harm?

As a result, this woman and I went back to her apartment. Didn't come home all night.

When I went back to change clothes in the morning, my wife said, "Isabel was sent to a nursing home."

I wear a tie silently.

"Her mother said she wanted to see you."

I said, "I'm not free."

"Jiahao-"

"I'm tired of this whole thing. From today on, everything about Isabel has nothing to do with me. "

The wife completely calmed down and looked down at her hands.

"I'm going to operate on the patient today." I kissed her on the forehead. "Wish me luck."

She shook my hand and smiled reluctantly, but she still smiled.

Stay in the hospital at night and talk to the patient's family. The nurse asked me to answer the phone. The wife said over there, "Mrs. Yu, please go to the nursing home anyway."

I calmly replied, "I won't go." Next time she calls, please ask her to leave us alone. "

"Jiahao-"

"Don't you realize that this is the only way to deal with them?"

"But Isabel is like a madman in a mental hospital-"

"I can't help anything." I hung up the phone.

My baby Isabel. My heart ached, and Isabel's chubby little arms wrapped around my neck. Isabel said, "On my birthday, my father will take me to dance." Ah, Isabel. I went back to the clinic alone and felt sick.

That night I went back to find the girl I met in Repulse Bay. She was very happy and greeted me with a smile. I need to see a happy face. She satisfied me.

"How old are you?" She asked me.

"Almost fifty years old."

"I really don't see men taking advantage of this."

"Don't you see? My muscles are flabby, my stomach is bulging forward, and my hair has lost a lot ―― do you think I have the courage to take off my clothes in front of a girl of 18 years old? "

She patted me on the back angrily.

I'll keep her due fee and get dressed.

She counted the cash. "Can we be friends?" She asked.

I shook my head. "I don't need friends." I said.

"You don't look like such a cold person." She said, "Will you come again?"

"When you want to come, you will always come." I said.

She is too smart to ask any more questions.

I didn't go to her apartment again.

Isabel spent a whole year in a nursing home.

After a period of deterioration, she didn't even recognize her parents. Teacher Yu came to us with long hair and begged me to see Isabel. I went upstairs and locked myself in the study. Mrs. Yu finally left and her wife came upstairs.

"Your hand-"she said, "gauze, blood ..."

"The cup is broken." I said indifferently, "It doesn't matter if the glass is cut."

My wife has been observing me for a long time. She said, "Twenty-five years of husband and wife, Jiahao, but in fact I know nothing about you."

I'll keep drinking Brady. I drank a lot. I'm afraid that one day I can't have another operation because my hands are shaking badly.

One night in the middle of the night, my wife asked me, "Do you love Elizabeth?"

I said, "I love her deeply." Nod.

"Are you the kind of secular person? I am not. " The wife said.

"I don't know. It is too late. I didn't dare at first. It's too late now. "

A year later, Isabel came out of the mental hospital. Yu's family immigrated to California with her. I never saw Isabel again.

Every year on her birthday, I think sadly, is she smarter when she is one year older?

Then one day the newspaper was spread out and the wife said, "Look!"

We saw a wedding notice saying that Isabel was married.

It wasn't long before we got a color photo of Isabel: Mr. and Mrs. Yu smiled from ear to ear, and the groom was a handsome young man, full of books. I stared at the photo for a long time. Isabel is as beautiful as an angel, with a bulging white wedding dress, dark hair and narrowed eyes.

The wife said, "I have a big stone in my heart." She sat down on the sofa. "I'm so happy for Yoga Yu." She sighed.

I put down the photo, my spell on Isabel disappeared, and she was free. I asked, "How old is she this year?"

"Twenty-two." The wife replied.

I lost her, my Isabel. It used to be easy to get Isabella, my baby Isabella.

The wife looked up and asked, "You are disappointed. She will never love you. "

"I'm happy for her." I said.

Yes, disappointed. She never loved me. I am used to her love for me. Sometimes I will tell myself impulsively when I am most gray: there is still a very young and beautiful girl who falls for me. Don't be too pessimistic.

What's left now?

I put that photo in my eyes to show that I don't care. When I shaved this morning, I found myself an old man.

Mr. and Mrs. Yu wrote a long letter to thank me: "... Jiahao, only now do we deeply understand that your cruelty at that time was entirely for Isabel's benefit."

After that, my days began to be empty. My attitude began to get tired, because no one would care about me and no one would love me.

My wife and I still maintain a relationship of mutual respect.

On the 30th wedding anniversary, accompany her to choose a jewelry as a souvenir. She likes red gem ring. Ruby is more expensive than diamond. I suggested that she buy diamonds. My wife smiled and said, "There you go again, just say what I want?"

I smiled sadly and stepped back. After three quarters of a century, we are still together, no matter what gems she bought.

There is a young couple picking out necklaces at the counter in another corner of the jewelry store. The girl has thick curly black hair and ears as delicate as shells. My heart touched it gently. She raised her eyes and my heart thumped. Isabel. This is Isabel.

My legs don't listen to me at all. I leaned forward and called to her, "Isabel."

I'm not mistaken for someone else. She turned her head in surprise. Her beautiful face is gentle and sincere, with a kind but vacant smile. "Are you-"

She didn't recognize me. )

She forgot me. )

I said rudely, "I'm Song Jiahao, Isabel."

"Oh, yes," she smiled calmly and looked at her husband on her forehead. "Dad also asked me to call you. Hello. "

Everything else is too unimportant. When the wife came over, everyone exchanged greetings, exchanged addresses, laughed for a long time and said goodbye.

(Isabel forgot me. )

When I left the jewelry store, it began to rain, and the rain in front of the car was dangling, and my wife and I were bored.

I can't understand: Isabel forgot me.

Whether she is young or not, she has enough time to go back and start over.

The wife said, "... they are a perfect match ..."

I asked, "Do you know?"

The wife asked in surprise, "What is it?"

I said, "I greeted her, but Isabel didn't recognize me."

"Ah?" The wife was also surprised.

Endless loneliness invades my heart. Can I reverse my driving? Board, drive home.

Oh, Isabel. How can you forget me? How could I?

(End)

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