~.-~      It is not surprising that people like to show off their strengths and hide their shortcomings. It is normal. It would be strange if someone likes to spread things they are not good at in public and enjoys embarrassment.

I really have no talent in singing. Since I was a child, I have only had the kind of existence that stands in the chorus and keeps silent. But having no talent or interest does not mean that I can only sing the love of an old boatman. Since I met Aunt Cheng in college, I have been forced to howl all night long by her. Lack of personal stance in front of other people's requests has always been my strengths and weaknesses. I have read 300 Tang poems and can't write poems.

I can chant, but the only song "The Love of a Tractor" was made by Liusu who begged me to beg me to beg me to never sing with her even if I rolled all over the ground. The reason why this girl mentioned this song to Murphy was because Murphy wanted to sing with me, and she felt a little snack in her heart. She deliberately poked my scars, which not only hurt my confidence, but also scared Murphy away. Perhaps, she also wanted to see if I would treat it in a biased and different way. She really sang this old song that she had never sang for her duet with Murphy.

When talking about this song, I have to mention a comedy that almost caused a tragedy that happened in my family many years ago. I once told Liu Su as a topic of conversation. Xiao Zi also knew that Aunt Cheng mentioned the title of the song, so she turned her back and covered her mouth and smiled secretly. The first time I sang this song with someone, the object was not someone else, my stepmother of the living treasure, but she was not sacred at all at that time. At least before singing this song, she had never exposed her nonsensical nature of being cute and pretending to be young, and she was afraid of scaring me. Therefore, she was very strict in everything she did, paid attention to her image, and was even careful. It can be said that her change, or the change in the relationship between me and her, started with the duet song.

That was the first Spring Festival after stepmother and Chu Yuan came to my house. At that time, we had been together for less than three months. Although we had gradually adapted to the new family and lifestyle, there was still a big gap between the four of us. After all, I was only twelve or thirteen years old at that time. I pretended to be precocious and persuaded the old man to remarry was just a matter of moving his mouth. The old man really remarried, and took him home with a stepmother and a sister. How to get along is not as simple as moving his mouth. After all, I have to spend time together every day, and I have to look down and see him without looking up. For the diligent and beautiful stepmother, I admire two points of pride, but I have seven points of fear.

The word "stepmother" is mostly negative in fairy tales or in TV. "The more beautiful a woman is, the harder it is to get along with." This is the truth that Sister Yue often instilled in me before her stepmother appeared. Of course, there is more than half of the sentence afterwards, which exposes her motivation and purpose. "The more beautiful a woman is, the harder it is to get along with. So women who are so beautiful and so easy to get along with are so unseeable. Do you understand? If you understand, tell your dad that you like Sister Yue and want to be with Sister Yue for the rest of your life, but don't tell him that I asked you to say it, otherwise you will beat your ass...'

Sister Yue just wants to be my stepmother. Before she becomes a stepmother, she scares me every day. She will be spanked if she is disobedient. For stepmothers who are more beautiful than Sister Yue and have successfully become a leader, you can imagine the anxiety of the little brat. I am not afraid of Sister Yue's fierce look, because I know her too well, but I don't know the stepmother who strives to force herself to create the image of a good wife and a good mother. In my opinion, she is a bit like an old man, too serious and serious, so during that time I often make excuses to eat and stay overnight at Ziyuan's house. Her mother is obviously poisoned by film and television dramas, and she has taught me how to deal with stepmothers and how to protect herself, which invisibly strengthens the opposing image of the stepmother in my mind.

I am afraid of stepmother, Chu Yuan is afraid of me. An introverted loli with clear nose and pigtails all over her body exuding the fragrance of milk. Not to mention boys, even girls of the same age are rare creatures for her, so she always has an instinctive fear and defense against me, and even more to the old man. At least you can often see smiles on my face, but the old man is hot inside and cold outside. With that serious face, the college students sitting under his podium are inevitably nervous and restrained, let alone the little Chu Yuan? In order to make Chu Yuan feel his kindness, the old man often uses his method to highlight his strictness towards me. When Chu Yuan really understood this, he graduated from elementary school...

I always feel that my emotional clumsiness is inherited by the old man. He never told me why he married his stepmother, but just took his stepmother and Chu Yuan home, saying that one was my mother and the other was my sister. Seeing that I didn’t cry, I didn’t make a fuss or object, I got married. I took a few family photos. The four went to a restaurant for a big meal. Even if it was a wedding, I thought the old man’s low profile was to express respect for my mother, but later I thought it was the reason for the stepmother’s family. Not long ago, I learned the story between the old man and her and Sister Yue from the stepmother. It’s not difficult to understand why the old man seemed more difficult to integrate into a brand new family than me for a long time after the marriage. His marriage with the stepmother was not because of love at all. Two people without love suddenly had to live together, and it was strange that they could adapt immediately.

So in the first few months, everything seemed warm and harmonious, but in fact everyone's nerves were tense. Until that night on New Year's Eve, I sang the song "The Love of a Tractor" with my stepmother...

That duet now seems to be a comedy that almost caused a tragic comedy, but for me at that time, it was a nightmare - the stepmother's talent for singing was definitely comparable to Dongfang Xiaoniang, and it was not in tune. But after dinner that night, waiting for the start of the Spring Festival Gala, she intended to stir up the family atmosphere and let Chu Yuan sing for me and the old man. Chu Yuan, who was so thin and afraid of being a child, was not willing? If she didn't say anything, her stepmother glared at her and she cried. It didn't matter if she cried. The old man panicked, but he didn't know that Chu Yuan, a girl, has always been hard but not soft, can scare but not persuade, can scold but not coax her, and the more she persuaded her, the more she would coax her, the more fierce she would cry. The stepmother's little thoughts didn't come true, and it had a reverse effect. How could she be held back on her face? She has a childish temper, mature and steady all pretended, and she was anxious at that time.

At the critical moment, the old man had a sudden inspiration and burned the fire on me, an innocent pitiful person. He actually asked me to sing to them! Isn’t this a difficult person?

The old man learned from his stepmother, but I didn't dare to learn from Chu Yuan. He was helpless with Chu Yuan. He was helpless to me. A feather duster was enough. I could accept unequal treatment. What I couldn't accept was that the old man asked me to sing, but according to his own taste, he chose a song "The Love of a Tractor" for me, and said, "This song is the brother and sister, which is suitable for you and Yuanyuan."

The old man ordered the duet song, hoping that Chu Yuan would sing with me. Of course, Chu Yuan would not sing. Just when I was willing to do it and planned to take charge of two roles by myself, my stepmother volunteered to sing the sister who was sitting on the bow of the boat, just like Mrs. Duanmu now...

Then, it was my nightmare - if my stepmother deliberately sings out of tune, I would laugh, but I wouldn't find it ridiculous. What's ridiculous is that she was obviously very serious, but there was no sentence on the tune. Her perfect image collapsed and disillusioned in my heart for a moment. The more intoxicated the stepmother sang, the more I wanted to laugh, and the more I wanted to laugh, the more I was afraid of laughing. As a result, not only did she feel trembling in her voice, but she also followed her out of tune.

I still don't want to remember the embarrassing feeling that I was about to be crazy. There are two reasons. The first is that the comedy almost turned into a tragedy. Chu Yuan, who kept crying, heard the strange sounds and tunes that I wanted to erase from my memory. He suddenly hugged his stomach and burst into laughter. But after we finished singing, she cried again, laughing so hard that her stomach hurts...

To this day, we don’t know what Chu Yuan is. We only remember that on New Year’s Eve, a fool mother and son accidentally injured a little girl because of singing. When millions of families were enjoying the warmth and watching the Spring Festival Gala, we looked for a hospital all over the streets, but we found the hospital but couldn’t find Chu Yuan’s disease. When he saw the needle, Chu Yuan’s stomach stopped hurting...

The second reason is as puzzling as Chu Yuan’s stomachache. Although there was no gap between me and my stepmother that night, it left a sequelae - I didn’t seem to be able to sing the song “The Love of a Tractor” anymore, and I was out of tune when I opened my mouth, and it always tasted that night...

Now.

At this moment, now, here.

Fate made three jokes with me—

First, Mrs. Duanmu wants to sing "The Love of a Tractor" with me. This woman who is just like her stepmother, who cannot see her real age is the only woman I cannot refuse in this world at present.

Second... Mrs. Duanmu's singing skills are actually on the same level as her stepmother and Dongfang Xiaoniang!

Third... Her seriousness and self-indulgence are also at the level of stepmother...

"Stunning" can no longer describe the expressions of the people in the house at this moment. Except for the foreigners in the Moon Valley who have never heard this song, who are not biting their mouths and afraid that they will laugh? Even if Murphy, who is used to posing a freezer face, he will twitch his lips. Ziyuan, who has a high laugh, has a fine bead of sweat at the tip of his nose. My aunt Cheng obviously didn't drink, but her pretty face is even redder than Viagra who has drunk alcohol. Wan'er and Sister Liu and Qin Lan simply learn from Xiao Songjia, so she ignores the image of a lady, stuffing things into her mouth hard, and only chews it. Just to support her cheeks, Gao Dahai and other men, they poured beer hard, wanting to get themselves drunk, learn Viagra, and have a great alcoholic...

These guys want to laugh not only about Mrs. Duanmu, but also about me who sings out of tune with Mrs. Duanmu because I can't laugh. I was just afraid that Mrs. Duanmu would misunderstand and dared not laugh.

In the torture, I secretly thanked: Fortunately, the stinky girl Chu Yuan fell asleep in the car, otherwise she would have laughed so hard that her stomach hurts when she was sent to the hospital. She would have stripped Mrs. Duanmu's face, but she would have become a big deal...

【ps: An autumn rain and a cold, I suddenly realized that summer has passed and autumn is about to pass...】

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Chapter completed!