Part 100 Slow
The child in the stroller saw that I didn't recognize me at all, and grabbed the biscuit in my hand, and I was just about to feed him, but his grandmother worriedly stuffed the biscuit back into my hand, "He can't eat it, he has intestinal spasms!"
I look at the black and thin child in front of me, and the hair is pitiful, it should be caused by malnutrition, how can there be intestinal spasms at such a small age?
"Does he snack a lot?"
"Occasionally I have money to buy it for him. This kid likes spicy food just as much as his mother, you see the bubbles on his mouth. ”
"Huh?!Why do you eat spicy food when you're so small?"
"Not young, five years old!"
Five-year-old, looks like a three-year-old, too thin, so thin that it hurts. I stuffed the biscuits into my mother-in-law's pocket and asked, "Is his leg uncomfortable?" Why don't you walk by yourself?"
"Don't mention it, two days ago his father was drunk and beat the child couldn't stand up, you look at your legs, and on your arms, he now runs away when he sees his father. ”
She sighed several times in succession, the tone of her speech, the look of complaint was the same as Xianglin's sister-in-law, I stood next to me, and I couldn't do anything but sympathize and listen. She was like a fish stranded in the bay, moistened by a drop of water, and immersed in it, talking endlessly.
"His dad likes to play cards, the last time he lost was knocked off an arm, just a little bit to gamble again, I don't know how to stop, two days ago I took the money, how many bottles are not enough for him to practice. Not only did he beat the child, but the child's mother also beat ......"
The constant stream of complaints continued, and I felt a ringing in my ears when a hurried woman approached, and I couldn't hear what she was saying.
I turned all my attention to the woman. She walked in a hurry, but her steps were faltering, and her old clothes were still stained with oil, and she didn't look refreshing. It was as if someone had cut a piece of flesh with a knife, and it was dripping with blood, and I couldn't stop it.
"Mommy, Mommy!" the little boy who came in the stroller stood up excitedly, his legs could not stand it, and he fell into the car in an instant.
I looked at the familiar face of the woman...... How could she be so old and weak? She looked older than my dad, and there was a ten year difference between them.
She looked at me with a dodgy look, and the hidden sadness in her eyes revealed the tip of the iceberg, and I grabbed the corner.
That's her......
In an instant, my clothes were tightened, leaving no gaps, and I couldn't even breathe. There was a rustling wind in my ears, and a gentle female voice echoed and faded away.
"Grandma's peacock grass is the most beautiful, and no one can compare to it. In her memory, she always likes to tell me that she was really beautiful at that time, with long black hair reaching to her waist, and a pair of smart eyes under thin bangs that seem to be able to speak. Her voice is the best in my ears and my brother's ears, just a few words, so that I dare not forget the appearance of peacock grass for the rest of my life.
When she was disobedient, she also beat us, laughed while beating, and said that she was reluctant to let us be beaten.
The screeching sound of brakes passed through my eardrums, and I covered my ears and read my name through her open and closed mouth, Kerr.
She screamed so detached, so embarrassed. I tried my best to calm myself, but my body dodged at the moment when she approached, and I couldn't help but feel grief and anger in my torn and torn heart, I ran out without hesitation, breaking into the speeding traffic, the deafening horn sounded one after another, and I suddenly lost my strength in my legs, and I knelt in the middle of the road.
The sound of a long car whistle streaked across the city's skyline, and I looked like I was lost, frantically searching for my way through the most familiar streets of S City.
A pair of calloused hands grabbed my shoulders, and the person behind me tried to pull me up from the ground, and she taught me the same way she did more than ten years ago: "You kid, you don't know how to look at cars when you're so big." ”
The driver who was forced to stop was kind enough to drop us across the road. I curled up on the ground, opposite neither my mother-in-law picking up trash nor my worn-out stroller.
Neither she nor I expected to meet in this way. I thought I would get some comfort when I saw it now, but in fact my heart hurt terribly......
"Get up, it's cold on the ground. ”
Her words were very soft, but I didn't dare to look up at every word, and I didn't even dare to call her Mom. How could she ...... How could she be the way she is? She hadn't shown up in the years she had been gone, she hadn't made a phone call, she had disappeared from the world. We all thought she was alive and well, so good that she didn't need anyone in the family anymore. No, what did that kid call her ......
How are you doing, just ask her...... Isn't it obvious that she's living like I can't even accept......
"When I was about to take the high school entrance examination, I learned to draw, and I studied it for two months, and guess what the first picture I drew was?" I let go of her hand holding me, "I drew you, and I imitated your old age according to what the teacher taught." ”
"I was thinking, if only I hadn't painted that picture, if only I had a terrible painting and not that like, then I wouldn't have recognized you today...... Why did you come back after you disappeared for so long? Do you know that we have been doing well in the past few years since you were away, and my brother is married...... So why come back!"
I almost roared, "Didn't you say you were too tired to follow my dad? Now you're satisfied? Are you relaxed?"
She stood there with a look of embarrassment I had never seen in her, and her hands hung in the air as she wanted to touch me, but then she quietly withdrew them.
I don't want to listen to her for a moment now, I'm afraid she'll just say, 'I'm in trouble,' and if she says that, then what about me, my brother, and my dad, what are we going to bear?"
I spoke ill of her, and I was anxious to go back and apologize to her.
At the end of the day, I didn't dare to do anything, I couldn't do anything, and I was still as timid as ever. She followed me on the way back, far away, and my heart tugged at the sound of her incessant coughing.
This is the punishment she deserves...... The feeling of suffocation was like a huge net enveloping me tightly. I went upstairs, opened the door, and didn't see her again when I was about to close the door.
Rudely pulling back the curtains, she stood under the tree, the huge shadow of the canopy obscuring most of her body, and she was looking cautiously, she didn't know where it was me.
Collapsed in the corner, thinking about what he had just said...... How could you really blame her......